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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.

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 ?

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.

01-02-2006, 11:26 PM

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01-03-2006, 12:42 AM

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Awsome dude that helped a WHOLE lot. Thanks a bunch

01-03-2006, 06:05 AM

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I'd say XHTML is interesting because of the extra features it provides! MathML, XPath, SVG, Canvas and a parsable output.

Myself, I prefer XHTML Strict 1.0 or XHTML 1.1 in front of HTML 4.

01-03-2006, 01:27 PM

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So what are the different types of xhtml and the doctypes that go with them ?

01-03-2006, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Jordan Street

So what are the different types of xhtml and the doctypes that go with them ?

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_doctype.asp

01-04-2006, 04:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Techno

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_doctype.asp

That link is pretty limited. It doesn't talk about the different doctypes for using e.g. MathML. Have a look at this page instead:
http://www.itnews.org.uk/w_qrefs/w_i...p_doctypes.cfm