On 1/27/07, Duncan Stigwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What impact does this have on people who have just made the transistion to
xHTML 1 like me?
I'm an avid supporter of the web standards and have been guiding many in the
ways of xHTML and validating... but it seems the issue is becoming ever more
complicated, rather than clearer, as time goes by.
Rather than having one standard to follow, there seems to be more and more
"standards". Personally I feel like despite my best efforts to be a good
web designer, its becoming ever more troublesome and I'm finding myself
spending more time trying to keep on the ball than actually working and
earning a living.
People have gone through what you went through and many of them have
done the same thing: go back to HTML 4.01. Let's be honest... by the
time XHTML 2.0 becomes a reality we probably still won't have
universal browser support for XHTML rendering. It's possible to serve
XHTML to compliant browsers and HTML to IE, but there aren't any real
benefits from using XHTML. XHTML is not for day to day web design that
you hand over to your tech-illiterate clients and when you are serving
it as text/html you are just writing XHTML that looks like HTML 4.01
to the browser.
You could keep serving XHTML 1.0 websites and you would probably never
see any negative consequences come from it, but someway along the road
we'll have an updated version of HTML with new tags to learn and a
totally new implementation of XHTML where we will have to learn
everything all over again. It is a disappointing situation right now
but at least there is work being done on all fronts.
My $0.02: I'm looking forward to HTML 5 more.
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Christian Montoya
christianmontoya.net .. designtocss.com
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