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Why You Should Use XHTML

Posted by michael on from the life-not-complicated-enough-apparently dept.

Da_Slayer writes "The w3's HTML group has released the 6th public working draft for XHTML 2.0. XHTML 2 is a general-purpose markup language designed for representing documents for a wide range of purposes across the Web. Meaning it is to be used for document structuring which is why it does not have presentation elements. The draft is located at w3's website. Also they have a FAQ about why you should use XHTML over HTML. It goes into specifics about embedding MathML, SVG, etc... and has links to tools and resources to help convert existing html documents to xhtml. One of those resources is a document on XML events and its advantages over the onclick style of event handling."

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  1. You have to wonder... by Dozix007 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You have to wonder if Microsoft will be implimenting this new standard in IE. I have done some webdevelopment and have really noticed that they rarely impliment any of the standards in there browser. Not to mention that they are on the board that approves these standards :P

  2. Is this really going to happen? by Defiler · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've been using XHTML for some time, but only in the modes that safely fall back to HTML for browsers that don't "speak" XHTML.
    I have to wonder if 2.0 is going to catch on. Internet Explorer isn't likely to support it any time soon, and nobody wants to code two versions of every web application.
    Still, good FAQ on that site. I learned some details that had been hazy.

  3. /. should lead the way by pohl · · Score: 5, Interesting

    With all the time we spend hearing about alternatives to IE around here, you would think that slashdot would be compliant to at least some W3C standard. If /. were some tiny hobby weblog this would be forgivable, but /. could use the size of it's audience to actually lead. Why not do it?

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    The "cue the foo posts in 3, 2, 1..." posts will commence with no subsequent foo posts in 3, 2, 1...

  4. Re:XHTML and XML?? by pete-classic · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Good answer ;-)

    The grandparent might also interested in the following:

    XHTML is implemented in XML. So XHTML is to XML as OpenOffice.org's writer format is to XML. (Or as HTML is to SGML, or as this post is to English.)

    People often say somthing is XML when it is really implemented in XML. Using that (misleading) terminology XHTML is XML.

    -Peter

  5. Re:Ugh by Kentamanos · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I would argue learning XHTML is easier than HTML since the rules are a LOT more straightforward.