I'd like to know about a site that is XHTML 1.0 Transitional; what would
be the purpose in that, and would you say that should be served as
application-type/xhtml+xml, or text/html? A lot of the reading I've done
has been rather confusing, particularly when I go and see sites served
as XHTML 1.0 Transitional and text/html. Does that mean those sites are
'violating the validation law'?
What's a person to do? When is it appropriate to use one of the XHTML DTDs and
when to use HTML 4.01, and what about those XHTML Transitional DTDs? I guess I'm
looking for a bit of a summarization & clarification of this concept.
Leslie Riggs
Maybe, but if a site that is XHTML served as text/html were actually
served correctly as application-type/xhtml+xml, any validation errors
would cause the site to STOP working entirely. So this kind of "can't
win them all" attitude is okay when we are talking about html 4, but
with xhtml, it's not acceptable. When I see an html 4 site with
validation errors, I don't mind at all, but when I see an xhtml (or
wannabe xhtml) site with validation errors, I think that's a problem.
I know it sounds elitist, but in the xhtml world, validation is the
law.
This is why on my latest project, a wordpress template for a friend of
mine, I am designing the template to be html 4. Even all those
wordpress-generated <img /> tags are valid in html 4, and I don't have
to lose sleep over my friend's mistakes when she uses html in her
posts, because I know the site will still work.
As much as I like seeing a decent adoption of xhtml by so many
websites, I still think many of them should roll back to html 4, if
they aren't going to bother to fix their errors.
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