On 12 May 2008, at 22:42, Simon wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone use XHTML 1.1 and does it provide any benefits? I've
read up on
what the differences are but I was under the belief IE won't support
it
without a particular hack.
Is there a reason why not many sites adopt this Doctype and is there
any
point using right now if your site is 1.0 Strict?
Not really. There are only a couple of main differences between XHTML
1 and 1.1. The first is that it has been redefined in a modular
fashion. As a web developer you get no benefit from this. The second
difference is that there is a Ruby module (the only new
functionality). Ruby is a way of including ruby text relating to the
regular text. This is mostly used in Asian languages to explain how
to pronounce words. It is only supported by IE, even though XHTML
isn't supported by IE.
Secondly, I see a lot of sites that speak about CSS3 and using parts
of that
now in the browsers that support it.
I get along fine with CSS 2 but haven't really adopted or tried any
of the
newer more advanced CSS3 techniques. I haven't really had to. Is it
also
worth learning this now or can I expect IE to hold back this
standard for a
long time yet?
Depends on what you want to do. Media Queries are useful for
optimising form mobile for example. There are a lot of nice new CSS3
selectors, supported by Opera and Safari (and to some extent Firefox),
but they are not supported by IE. text-shadow is something I use
quite a bit as it degrades gracefully in browsers that don't support
it (IE and Firefox both don't), thus is unless you use a text colour
the same as the background colour. box-shadow and border-radius are
other properties that fallback nicely when not supported.
Web fonts look interesting, but it may be hampered by needing to use
free fonts that are allowed to be freely distributed.
Some CSS3 is already used quite often in websites, such as opacity
(supported by all mainstream browsers except IE) Some CSS3 are
standardisation's of IE only propertis, such as overflow-x and
overflow-y, which have widespread support now.
Thanks for your opinions
Simon
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