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01-01-2006, 08:00 PM
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1: Usually loads faster
2: Almost always works perfectly in any good browser
3: It's rumored that SEs can crawl the site faster
4: Sexy button from w3c
5: XHTML is the future, the sooner we get rid of HTML, the sooner browsers will be able to evolve.
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01-01-2006, 09:00 PM
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This is what i heard about xhtml that its aparently more advanced then html its self its better cleaner, powerful etc but the downside is that its harder to code ![Frown](images/smilies/frown.gif) so im sticking with my ye olde html ![Smile](images/smilies/smile.gif)
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01-01-2006, 09:14 PM
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i don't know much about html and xhtml but i know that there is hardly any difference in coding xhtml and html, except xhtml has a stricter syntax and html, but it wouldn't make it that much difficult to code with.
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01-01-2006, 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by sniper101
... but the downside is that its harder to code ..
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I would write an eloquent counter-point to this, backing up my belief that XHTML is no more difficult to write down than 'ordinary' HTML. But instead I'll just ask; which uneducated baboon told you that?
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01-02-2006, 01:49 AM
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One person said that with xhtml and css there is no need for tables to structure your layout. Do you use <li>s and divs then to create the structure of the page ?
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01-02-2006, 02:37 AM
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With HTML there is no need to use tables. They wern't intended to structure a page, but have been adopted by people back in the early days of the web to create columns for websites, as back then most websites took on a linear approach to "design".
If you want to code a site without using tables to structure your code, then you will mainly use DIVs for the holders and wrappers and LIs for the menu items.
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01-02-2006, 05:07 AM
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xHTML is more strict. So it is cleaner code and validates if you have a good coder.
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01-02-2006, 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Spawny
i don't know much about html and xhtml but i know that there is hardly any difference in coding xhtml and html, except xhtml has a stricter syntax and html, but it wouldn't make it that much difficult to code with.
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XHTML is just as easy as HTML. If you know html then it will take about 5-10 minutes to figure out XHTML. It's almost identical, just a slightly different syntax. www.w3schools.com - Will tell you all you need to know.
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01-02-2006, 03:03 PM
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Yes, XHTML's syntax is just as easy as HTML's. But there is one more thing: XHTML should be semantic. So mainly - no tables for construction.
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1: Usually loads faster
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Yes, but... Web site which use XHTML loads faster cause stylesheets and javascript files and other external files are loaded from browser cache. So it's partially advantage of XHTML.
XHTML is a web standard. We should use web standards to make a good web site, which is accessible for everyone. But web standards is not only syntax. It's a way of thinking to solve problems (i.e. construction of layout).
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01-02-2006, 11:05 PM
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Originally Posted by joe
With HTML there is no need to use tables. They wern't intended to structure a page, but have been adopted by people back in the early days of the web to create columns for websites, as back then most websites took on a linear approach to "design".
If you want to code a site without using tables to structure your code, then you will mainly use DIVs for the holders and wrappers and LIs for the menu items.
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Thanks. Also do clients prefer to have templates coded in <div>s and <ul>s rather than <table>s ? Are there any advantages to <div>s/<ul>s ?
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