It's an SEO book, not a development book. Anyway (in my opinion), SEO is just a bunch of hearsay and conjecture.
Anyone who has done any work with CSS in multiple browsers knows that using the transitional doctype in any language is a no-no. For starters, IE misinterprets the box model incorrectly and often in any browser positioning and flow can be interpreted in many, often unpredictable ways.. Whether XHTML or plain HTML, the transitional doctype is just too much work when dealing with more than one browser. On one of our newer sites** the XHTML model seems to work well with search engines, and the code isn't much different at all. It doesn't even fail if the code is not well-formed. Joel ** http://www.sirchin.com .. plug plug -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sarah Barry Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2006 10:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Why XHTML? and yet planetocean in its December SEO book still recommends sticking with html because: quote: "Some search engine spiders have had difficulty processing the XHTML DOCTYPE in the past, so we recommend that you use the HTML 4.01 Transitional DOCTYPE, ..." I did some research (some time ago admittedly) that XHTML delivered as text/html was very little different to straightforward html and what mattered was if the mime type was application/xhtml+xml ciao s -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Kear Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2006 8:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Why XHTML? Ryan, i use it almost exclusively because: [A] It's more up to date, and therefore more future proof (or perhaps less future-risky is a more accurate way to put it) [B] using the XHTML Strict is stricter and therefore forces me to use a more concise and valid code (therefore more cross-browser compatible and fewer cross-browser issues) As I understand it, eventually HTML is going to be deprecated in favour of XHTML, at which point I want all my work to be valid and working, so I'm not forced to go back and re-do all my old stuff. I figure it's better to get it all up to date now, Especially since old browsers dont spit it out. There's no downside to learning XHTML and potentially some big downside to using old HTML. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On 12/6/06, Ryan Sabir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey all, How many of you are developing sites in XHTML these days? Is it worth the extra effort? thanks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
