Posted by Harlan Messinger on 11/04/07 15:34

1001 Webs wrote:
> On Nov 4, 9:14 am, Harlan Messinger
> <hmessinger.removet...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> 1001 Webs wrote:
>>> On Nov 3, 3:49 pm, Harlan Messinger
>>> <hmessinger.removet...@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>> 1001 Webs wrote:
>>>>> Every respected Web-authoring Guru says that.
>>>> Really?
>>>>> This is the era of table-less design, CSS code, XHTML compliant
>>>>> websites.
>>>>> Separate layout from content.
>>>> And guess what the content is marked up with? (Hint: HTML.) So either
>>>> you or whoever's prognostications you're reading is confused.
>>> W3 recommends the use of CSS
>> You are misunderstanding this. W3 recommends the use of CSS for
>> *presentation*. Without content marked up with HTML *to apply the CSS
>> to*, there is no web page.
> W3 recommends the use of CSS for *presentation*
> and XHTML for content,
> Please, correct me if i'm wrong.

I missed that you had mentioned XHTML, but no matter: XHTML is a variety
of HTML, pure and simple, just as HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.01 are varieties
of HTML. XHTML is just an XML-compliant variety. In any event, it has
nothing to do with whether or not you use tableless design or otherwise
separate presentation from content, since you can (mis)use XHTML for
presentation just as easily as you can (mis)use HTML 4.01 for
presentation. So you're confusing several issues here and, ultimately, I
now can't figure out what your point was!

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