Lachlan Hunt said: > Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: >> I'm more or less aware of how easy it is to mess things up, so for the >> last 2 years I've used the following procedure: >> >> -------- >> - Creating an xhtml 1.0 document. >> >> - Cleaning out 'human bugs' in HTMLTidy -> 'convert to xml'. >> >> - Serving it as 'xhtml' with the extension '.xhtml' to browsers that can >> make anything out of it - Opera, Moz/FF, Safari - internally and on >> line. >> Info: application/xhtml+xml - no errors - no apparent problems. >> >> - Changing the extension down to '.html' to get wide-spread support, >> with no additional changes to the document. >> >> - Run it through any browser I care to support - and maybe a few others >> and the validator for good measure - no apparent problems. >> -------- >> >> Is this enough 'real world' testing in order to secure quality of code >> so it can be served as either 'application/xhtml+xml' or 'text/html' by >> choice ? > > Yes, because you have developed and tested under both XHTML and HTML > conditions, you already know your pages will survive the transition to > true XML when the time comes. You would have already worked out any > incompatibilities between the handling of scripts, stylesheets, encoding > issues, etc. You are clearly not a beginner and you have made a very > informed choice, and that is fine. > > Beginners, however, would not, nor can they be expected to be aware of > all these issues and more often then not, develop XHTML in a purely HTML > environment. It is this that will cause all the problems in the future, > if they ever attempt to switch to true XML, and why I very strongly > advocate that beginners start with HTML, not XHTML. >
Well, it took some time, but I'm glad we've cleared that up. This is certainly more imformative for a beginner than simply telling them to use HTML. Perhaps this post can be bumped again with a more appropriate title: [SUMMARY] HOW TO USE XHTML IN 2005 complete with the shouting ;-) kind regards Terrence Wood. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
