kurafire.net— Really hip web developers use HTML 4.01 Strict and snub the newer XHTML standard for a number of reasons, but KuraFire is here to tell you why XHTML rocks and HTML is "so 1996."
Sep 12, 2006View in Crawl 4
Interesting, certainly addresses the actual issues, rather than the common misconceptions, for that I give it some kudos.Though what's actually being said is that XHTML is a marketing term as much as anything, it's a tool for awareness to represent something more than it actually is.Personally I stick with XHTML because the validator is stricter and prompts me to be better with my coding. I could write near identical code in HTML4, but I'd have to be more aware of what I was doing and be sure of my interpretation of the standards.Using XHTML as a marketing/awareness tool is only any good if the results are that sites run faster/better etc....Which they don't always, because too many people write poor code, whether it's HTML or XHTML.If people start realising that their new XHTML web site isn't actually performing any better than their old HTML4 version, the illusion will be shattered.
topcatajSep 15, 2006
Interesting, certainly addresses the actual issues, rather than the common misconceptions, for that I give it some kudos.Though what's actually being said is that XHTML is a marketing term as much as anything, it's a tool for awareness to represent something more than it actually is.Personally I stick with XHTML because the validator is stricter and prompts me to be better with my coding. I could write near identical code in HTML4, but I'd have to be more aware of what I was doing and be sure of my interpretation of the standards.Using XHTML as a marketing/awareness tool is only any good if the results are that sites run faster/better etc....Which they don't always, because too many people write poor code, whether it's HTML or XHTML.If people start realising that their new XHTML web site isn't actually performing any better than their old HTML4 version, the illusion will be shattered.