Posted by 1001 Webs on 11/04/07 13:50

On Nov 4, 12:02 pm, Lars Eighner <use...@larseighner.com> wrote:
> In our last episode, <1194172361.049047.57...@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
> the lovely and talented 1001 Webs broadcast on
> comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html:
>
> > W3 recommends the use of CSS for *presentation*
> > and XHTML for content,
> > Please, correct me if i'm wrong.
>
> You're wrong. That XHTML is more recent does not mean that it is more
> highly recommended than HTML 4.01.

Tutorial: Character sets & encodings in XHTML, HTML and CSS

Intended audience: HTML/XHTML and CSS content authors.
This material is applicable whether you create documents in an editor,
or via scripting.

Assumptions & recommendations in this section

*In the rest of this tutorial we will assume that you are serving
pages to be rendered in standards mode by relatively up-to-date user
agents.
* We recommend the use of XHTML wherever possible; and if you
serve XHTML as text/html we assume that you are conforming to the
compatibility guidelines in Appendix C of the XHTML 1.0 specification.
* We recognize that XHTML served as XML is still not widely
supported, and that therefore many XHTML 1.0 pages will be served as
text/html.
* We assume that, because of its tendency to cause Internet
Explorer 6 to render in quirks mode, some people prefer not to use the
XML declaration for XHTML served as text/html.
* XHTML served as XML should be served as application/xhtml+xml.

http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/

> It is true enough that it looks like everything is heading toward XML, but
> it is pretty much possible to start marking things up with an eye to that
> end in HTML, and much more important to move to strict.

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