OK, and this time to the list... Lamont Peterson wrote:
I disagree. Mainly due to my experiences with it, I've found that XHTML strict ends up producing fewer compatibility issues and workarounds to have to deal with.
I'm with Lamont on this. From my experience, XHTML strict: 1. Renders faster - assuming the code validates. 2. Puts more emphasis on separating content from structure, which results in cleaner code. 3. Came out before IE 6 so _even_ IE 6 supports it - which means any Windows-based PC purchased in over 6 years supports it. I don't care to support the handful of die-hard never-leave-Netscape 4 fans. I loved Netscape 4 in 1998, but move over bacon, I've got something leaner... Firefox (pardon the pun off the commercial from the 80's). 4. I found it easier to learn - it just made more sense. 5. Since XHTML is one type of XML document, learning XHTML puts you on track for learning XML, which yields a better understanding of DOM, and JavaScript. 6. If you want to style your document, you have to learn at least a little about CSS. 7. If someone I write web pages for wants a lower standard, it's easier to port XHTML backward to older standards than to port old standards to XHTML. In fact to port XHTML strict back to transitional, you just change the dtd - I'm pretty sure it'll still validate. In every way, I think XHTML is better. As an interesting sidenote, in 98 or so, they abandoned a code trunk and moved to a new one. That's why we never say Netscape 5 - they abandoned it in favor of the code for Netscape 6. I forget what they called the branch codename for Netscape 6, but the version they abandoned was later picked up by Mozilla and resumed. The codename was "Gecko". What would have been Netscape 5 is Firefox, which is the backbone for Netscape 8. So, ancient Netscape fans have even more reason to abandon version 4. /me steps down off his soapbox Brandon Stout http://mscis.org _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
