[WSG] 2 Q: New web site, which DTD I should use? and Compresion

2006-01-31 Thread Roberto Santana
Hello, 1) I'm going to create a new website fully standard, CSS, XHTML, WAI... I'd like to know your opinion about which DTD I should use, advantages and disadvantages... XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Strict XHTML 1.1 2) What's your opinion about HTML, CSS and Javascript

Re: [WSG] 2 Q: New web site, which DTD I should use? and Compresion

2006-01-31 Thread Joshua Street
1) HTML 4.01 Strict, unless you've got really ambitious plans and a very good idea what user agents will be in play: keeping in mind Internet Explorer doesn't support XHTML served as application/xhtml+xml, so it's still going to be parsed as straight HTML in that browser. 2) So far as I'm aware,

Re: [WSG] 2 Q: New web site, which DTD I should use? and Compresion

2006-01-31 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Roberto Santana wrote: 1) I'm going to create a new website fully standard, CSS, XHTML, WAI... I'd like to know your opinion about which DTD I should use, advantages and disadvantages... XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Strict XHTML 1.1 HTML 4.01 Strict. !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC

Re: [WSG] 2 Q: New web site, which DTD I should use? and Compresion

2006-01-31 Thread Francesco
--- Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HTML 4.01 Strict. !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd; I recommend HTML over XHTML for various reasons I won't go into now So even if a site is written fully XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant, and

RE: [WSG] 2 Q: New web site, which DTD I should use? and Compresion

2006-01-31 Thread Roberto Santana
Thanks for your answers I'll use HTML 4.01 Strict, I've been 'googling' and as Lachlan said the word seems not to be ready to XHTML. About compression, I wasn't talking about gzip, just talking about removing unnecesary spaces and line breaks... It seems that it doesn't matter to google, I've

Re: [WSG] 2 Q: New web site, which DTD I should use? and Compresion

2006-01-31 Thread Jay Gilmore
So even if a site is written fully XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant, and validates as such, it is still recommended to use HTML 4.01 Strict? Francesco Francesco, Many list members here are going to suggest that you use HTML 4.01 instead as technically what the user agents (browsers in this

Re: [WSG] 2 Q: New web site, which DTD I should use? and Compresion

2006-01-31 Thread Joshua Street
Actually, on this XHTML/HTML point I have an anecdote to share. I recently started in a new job at a place that was aware CSS/semantic markup was the way to go, but didn't really have a clue as to how to go about that. Their content management system is filled with various legacy markup

Re: [WSG] 2 Q: New web site, which DTD I should use? and Compresion

2006-01-31 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Francesco wrote: So even if a site is written fully XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant, and validates as such, it is still recommended to use HTML 4.01 Strict? There is much much more to XHTML than just ensuring the pages are well-formed, validate and conforms to the XHTML recommendation, Many of

Re: [WSG] 2 Q: New web site, which DTD I should use? and Compresion

2006-01-31 Thread Kay Smoljak
That's devious! I love it! On 2/1/06, Joshua Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found that the BEST way to make developers co-operate is to quietly put a bit of PHP in the header to serve application/xhtml+xml to browsers that support it, then watch them scratch their heads as