XHTML vs HTML?

"there is no bonus over HTML 4.01 maybe besides you being used to the small markup differences better."

That should be enough if you care about progressing and doing things the best way.

"Also, what you stated was the original purpose of HTML, before CSS was even a thought in HTML developers heads (time of marquee and blink). Things change."

Last time I checked, HTML 4.01 Strict didn't limit you from typing up presentational code. So yeah... Things change. The people who make the standards for the web are now supporting the latest 'thing' - XHTML. I don't know about you, but that's a good enough reason for me to use it.

Next up, I didn't call you "all" jackasses. I called 2 people who replied to my original post and just looked for trouble. :/

And no I'm not a hypocrite (well, at least not in this case) because I wasn't taking a **** at some random friendly guy, I was merely giving something back to people who purposely tried to make them look better than me for no logical reason.

"Now, your comments are just out there because you like to think they make you look smart. Erm. While they do have a taste of logic in them, they only make you look narrow minded and most of all they make you sound like jackasses."

You said "your", but you were talking about anyone who has the same view as I do, which means you called everyone with the same view jackasses.. also, if you were such a nice guy, you wouldn't be attacking anyone, even if they did attack you first.

I think it's pretty obvious that I was referring to the two guys who were bashing me just above my post. Maybe it takes a unique kind of view to see that.

Also... I never said I was a nice guy. I said I was trying to be friendly. I just like to think I'm not a jackass. It's your right to think otherwise, if you insist. :/

And who said nice guys are suckers, mate?

I mainly use XHTML simply because it's something people ask for. When I finish my portfolio up, it might actually take advantage of XML.

If you look at most sites using XHTML, they serve the document up as text/html, so they're obviously not benefiting from the extensibility of XML. It might also slow down the browser a bit, since XML parsers in browsers are probably more lightweight than SGML HTML parsers.

Up until news of HTML 5, there might have been more advantages to XHTML, as it's what the W3C had replaced the future of HTML with. They were going to [pretty much] leave HTML and just work on XHTML for standard markup.

But the differences, with the exception of XML in XHTML, are fairly small.

And with regards to proper coding since it's been brought up, unclosed elements in HTML will pass through SGML parsers absolutely fine, in the same way that XML parsers will pass all elements closed through. For instance, if the browser sees <p>, then another <p> without closing the previous one, it already knows that you shouldn't be nesting paragraphs inside each other, because it's not semantic, so it starts a new paragraph. So getting into "good coding" practises need not always mean coding HTML to XHTML standards.

Choose which languages for preference. If you want XML, XHTML is your choice

I use xHTML

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All answers to your question is here.

Thanks for that link Ju5T, very informative.

basically if u use xhtml more people will be able to view the site hte same way

Originally Posted by Xhibition basically if u use xhtml more people will be able to view the site hte same way

Not basically, possibly, or even remotely. Whether you use XHTML or HTML has no bearing on if you make your code compliant with multiple browsers, appliances, or other electronics.

I used XHTML, but just had my first Website Fundamentals class at university and they said where going to be using HTML over XHTML because they said it was better to use, but don't quote me on that. They also mentioned using HTML because of the HTML 5 coming out.