Posted by 1001 Webs on 11/04/07 15:50

On Nov 4, 4:34 pm, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.
But there are major differences.
HTML is not in XML format.
You have to make the changes necessary to make the document proper XML
before you can get it accepted as XML.

> 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!
The point I was trying to make (rather the question I was putting
forward) was whether we should be embracing the new standards.
Bear in mind that CSS rules that apply to HTML, apply only to
documents that are delivered as text/html, but not to XHTML.
So we'd better wait until they sort everything out, most likely with
the upcoming XHTML2.
That's the final conclusion.

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