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0 pointscom2kid7mo ago0 comments

> I recall being met with a big fat "XML parse error" page on occasion. If XHTML really took off (as in a significant majority of web pages were XHTML), those XML parse error pages would become way more common

Except JSX is being used now all over the place and JSX is basically the return of XHTML! JSX is an XML schema with inline JavaScript.

The difference now days is all in the tooling. It is either precompiled (so the devs see the error) or generated on the backend by a proper library and not someone YOLOing PHP to super glue strings together, as per how dynamic pages were generated in the glory days of XHTML.

We basically got full circle back to XHTML, but with a lot more complications and a worse user experience!

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MarkSweep7mo ago

Speaking of PHP, XHP predates JSX I believe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHP

Same idea: an XML-like syntax for creating object trees typically used to model HTML.

mort967mo ago

Nobody is generating JSX dynamically.

com2kidOP7mo ago

Not directly as strings of course, but a for loop that outputs a bunch of JSX components based on the array return values from a DB fetch is dynamically generated JSX.

mort967mo ago

No, it's not. The JSX, as in the text in the source file, is static. You can't accidentally forget to escape a string from the database and therefore end up with invalid JSX syntax, like you can when dynamically generating HTML. You're dynamically generating shadow DOM nodes, but the JSX is static.

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0 pointscom2kid7mo ago0 comments

Except JSX is being used now all over the place and JSX is basically the return of XHTML! JSX is an XML schema with inline JavaScript.

We basically got full circle back to XHTML, but with a lot more complications and a worse user experience!

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MarkSweep7mo ago

Speaking of PHP, XHP predates JSX I believe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHP

Same idea: an XML-like syntax for creating object trees typically used to model HTML.

mort967mo ago

Nobody is generating JSX dynamically.

com2kidOP7mo ago

Not directly as strings of course, but a for loop that outputs a bunch of JSX components based on the array return values from a DB fetch is dynamically generated JSX.

mort967mo ago

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