That's it. The thing is: you must learn the standards and try to follow them. It will be better for everyone. It's a pity there's a crappy corporation that doesn't understand this…
On 10/16/08, Alex Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > in a nutshell (and off the top of my head, so maybe not 100% > accurate): > > XHTML is just "converting/updating/adequating" HTML to the XML spec > (all tags must close, case-sensitive, etc) > > for example: > > HTML: <br> = valid > XHTML: <br> = invalid (all tags must close) so the correct version > would be <br /> (self-closing) > > Also, <b> became <strong>, <i> became <em> and <u> got scrapped. > the whole idea is to better enforce the content/display seperation, ie > no display info in the XHTML (leave it all to CSS) > > Right now it doesn't really do much for you or anyone... I recommend > using the "XHTML Transitional" doctype, which is forgiving if you use > legacy HTML tags :) > > On Oct 15, 11:25 pm, "Paulo Diovani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The way the page is being rendered, is slighty related to its markup, >> but it also depends on the browser. This is way the web designers work >> is always a big problem, since many pages render diferent depending on >> the browsers. >> XML is a markup language just like HTML, so, it has no way to prevent >> a page from being rendered wrong or such things. >> >> As far as i know, xHTML is a variant of HTML that was created to use XML >> markup. >> >> Please, take some time, and read the specifications: >> HTML 4.01 spec.http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/ >> XHTML 1.0 spec.http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ >> >> It is due to you, to choose what one to use. I commonly use xHTML 1.0 >> cause i use a php framework that generates xHTML markup, and also >> because i preffer it's syntax. >> But i was warned several times to use HTML 4.01 Strict, because it's >> most widely portable and, due to this, better "understood" for every >> browser. >> >> PS.: forgive my poor english... >> >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 4:15 AM, Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I'm very new to XHTML, have been incorrectly using HTML for years and >> > am finally taking a class to write html/xhtml files with some sort of >> > logic. However, I have a question that is irritating the hell out of >> > me. The book I'm reading from, "HTML and XHTML" by Patrick Carey, >> > says (or my understanding of what it says) that I write an XHTML >> > document, place it on the server, then when it is accessed by a user, >> > an XML parser checks its syntax, and if it it is well formed and >> > valied, it is passed by the parser and displayed by the browser. So >> > if I put this page together: >> >> > <code> >> >> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> >> >> > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" >> > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> >> >> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> >> >> > <head> >> >> > </head> >> >> > <body> >> > Test body >> >> > <span> >> >> > </body> >> >> > </html> >> >> > </code> >> >> > Now obviously this is not a well formed document, yet, it successfully >> > opens in both Opera and IE7, when, in my opninion, the page should not >> > have been rendered due to the errors in the pages content. Which >> > brings me to my question of, what the hell is the point of using >> > XHTML? It seems to have everything clean and proper, yet there is no >> > enforcement? >> >> > Thank you ahead of time for any enlightenment... >> >> -- >> Paulo Diovani >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> +55 51 8146 5413 >> ___________________http://www.diovani.com > > > -- André Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ -- You received this because you are subscribed to the "Design the Web with CSS" at Google groups. To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
