Egon wrote:
At 8:20 pm -0800 9/11/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 10:52 am, David Leader wrote:
PS But there have been flame wars about this on the web-design list.
Sam Marshall - webmaster for the Open University - is a persuasive
advocate for the "leave xhtml alone unless you know what you're
doing" view.
Interesting point of view...
So it's fine to mess around with HTML without having a clue what you're doing?
:)
OK. Let me rephrase that. His attitude is that "Unless you know why
you want to serve a web page as XHTML rather than HTML, serve it as
HTML." If your web page is badly coded it is clearly not a good
thing, but that is not the issue. His point is that for something
that is intended solely as a web page it is appropriate to serve it
as HTML and often inappropriate to serve it as XHTML.
If anyone wants more details of Sam's cogent arguments I can forward
them individually (when I hunt them out). But I don't think they are
really appropriate for this list, except to the extent that the
default recommendation for serving pages with Jmol applets should be
HTML, not XHTML.
David
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