[Lori wrote]
I am new to (trying to learn how) constructing standards conforming web
pages using XHTML and would like to know what HTML editor you folks that are
light years ahead of me would recommend?
[Lachlan wrote]
Since you're new, you might want to stick with HTML4
Lachlan, here is a
...
Lachlan, here is a classic example of a person new to Web Standards asking
for a
recommendation about which editor to use and instead you embroil this person
in a
debate over MIME types. Do you think this is a healthy environment for
newcomers to
learn about Web Standards? Why do you
Here is Hickson's reasoning as taken from http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml
1. Authors write XHTML that makes assumptions that are only valid for tag soup
or HTML4 UAs, and not XHTML UAs, and send it as text/html.
2. Authors find everything works fine.
3. Time passes.
4. Author decides to
Vlad Alexander (XStandard) wrote:
Lachlan Hunt wrote:
Lori Cole wrote:
I am new to (trying to learn how) constructing standards
conforming web pages using XHTML and would like to know what HTML
editor you folks that are light years ahead of me would
recommend?
Since you're new, you might
Lachlan Hunt wrote:
Yes. Why should we attempt to hide the truth from them, especially
when they're just starting out and they need to lose/avoid any bad
habits and mistakes as quickly as possible.
Yours is a fringe and pedantic opinion, and you're being ridiculously
harsh on XHTML.
I'm
2005/12/2, XStandard Vlad Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
So Rimantas, you have written invalid XHTML, served it as XML and then blamed
XHTML
because your Web site broke.
Your assumption is wrong :)
If you had written invalid HTML 4 and some User Agents had
not parsed it correctly, would you
Lachlan, you have been on this list long enough to know that when you make
extreme statements such as since you're new, you might want to stick with
HTML4 or IE does not support XHTML, that debate will ensue. This is not what
newcomers to Web Standards need. A better approach would have been to
