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Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 11/14/06 17:31
Geoff Berrow wrote:
> It used to be that one of the liberating factors of the web was that
> HTML was simple and easy to learn. Therefore it was no barrier to
> producing webpages. Contrast that with XHTML (generated by XML and XSLT
> stylesheets).
Boy oh boy did you get THAT wrong.
XHMTL is not necessarily generated by XML and XSLT.
It's just HTML with a few new rules.
Little stuff - like always using opening AND closing
tags, and capitalizing properties.
Really - check out the spec.
> I see absolutely no benefit in marking up to XHTML 1.1 Strict delivered
> as text over and above HTML 4.01 Strict. And XHTML 1.1 transitional is
> definitely a step backward.
The one benefit above all others is ubiquity. For
example - say you publish a table of bond rates that
other bond traders will pay you for. If you publish
it as an HTML table, it'll get out there.
But if you publish it as XHTML, others out there on
the web can read it AS IF it were an XML file - and
do all the cool stuff they want with XSLT, XForm, etc
>
> The op should probably take an overview of the technologies involved in
> XHTML but a more productive area of study might be in accessibility and
> fluid web design.
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