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Posted by cwdjrxyz on 07/19/06 16:26
Chung Leong wrote:
> What is the point of XHTML anyway? To me it always seems an exercise in
> vanity. I was looking at the FAQ at the W3C and the answer to the
> question as to why XHTML is necessary goes something like "Well, we had
> this workshop a few years ago and everyone there thought it's a good
> idea."
Of course one is still free to write code in an html level as low as
3.2 which still can be validated at the w3c and which seems to be
supported by most recent computer browsers also. The importance of
xhtml/xml is that a very large number of smaller devices now support
xml and sometimes not html. Thus traditional computer browsers need to
be brought in line to allow easy exchange of data between many
different types of devices. If I were teaching a programming course, I
would require that all programs be written in xhtml 1.1 as well as html
4.01 strict or be given a reason of why a program can not be written
in xhtml 1.1. I would also give any program that did not completely
validate at the w3c html/xhtml and css validators a grade of zero.
Fortunately for many future students, I am very unlikely to ever teach
programming :-) .
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