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Posted by patrick j on 10/26/06 01:47
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:57:06 +0100, Ganesh wrote
(in article <1161824226.322720.268500@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>):
> I want to start designing a website using XHTML strict.
>
> How should I start? I want to save time and get a good design as well.
Hi
I returned to doing web-sites in the last few months having not done
any at all for about five years.
Initially I thought that XHTML was "the way to go" so I embarked upon
doing everything with XHTML.
However there are problems with XHTML, one of which I've encountered
and there are lots of people in this forum who will describe in much
more detail why XHTML may not be a good idea.
The problem I've encountered is that the XHTML declaration at the very
top:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
seems to put IE 6 into "quirks mode". It might very well do this with
other browsers as well I've only observed this with IE 6.
The problem (I guess) is that the browser doesn't understand this very
first statement and then says to itself "I must be dealing with a jolly
bad HTML site here" and goes into a mode of operation which is
anticipating problems.
The reality seems to be that the browser's behaviour becomes
unpredictable in some situations.
So I have started doing everything in HTML 4.01.
I think that it would be easy to change the XHTML in the future if I
wanted to, if it did indeed become "the next big thing" because in fact
all I think I need to do is change the headers at the top and do a
find/replace on the ends some of the tags and that kind of thing.
However XHTML demands that all tags are closed, it is very fussy in
that respect, so I think that for me the thing I'm doing is just making
sure all my tags in HTML 4.01 are closed and by this simple measure
than I know that conversion to XHTML (if I wished) would be fairly
simple.
The most exciting thing about the writing HTML today is CSS. This is
the massive change which has taken place in the period I have spent
away from HTML. I feel that concentrating on CSS is very much the "way
to go". If you are not familiar with CSS then you will find it great
fun to explore :)
--
Patrick
Brighton, UK
<http://www.patrickjames.me.uk>
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