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Why You Should Use XHTML 657

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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Why You Should Use XHTML

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  • by ViolentGreen ( 704134 ) on Friday July 23, 2004 @02:18PM (#9781847)
    Can someone please explain the differences between XHTML an XML?
  • by gnuman99 ( 746007 ) on Friday July 23, 2004 @02:21PM (#9781882)
    Maybe we should use XHTML because HTML is ancient and broken? Furtheremore, CSS must be pushed to replace most of the format specifications. XHTML+CSS actually simplify the rules by which browsers format text.
  • by hey ( 83763 ) on Friday July 23, 2004 @02:47PM (#9782179) Journal
    Regular HTML:

    <img src=logo.gif width=10 height=10>

    XHTML:

    <img src="logo.gif" width="10" height="10">

    I hate those extra quotes. Why is this progress!?

  • by orthogonal ( 588627 ) on Friday July 23, 2004 @02:58PM (#9782313) Journal
    Also they have a FAQ about why you should use XHTML over HTML.
    Meaning it is to be used for document structuring which is why it does not have presentation elements.


    What! No <blink> tag?? No

    No way I using it!11!1 I'm a serious web designer!

    (This comment looks best at 717x913 resolution, using Internet Explorer for the security holes and that essential <marquee> tag. Page designed in Microsoft Word, because that HTML stuff makes my head swim. Enhanced with buggy JavaScript we stole off some Russian porn site, to resize your browser window, make its controls inaccessible, ensure the "security" of our images by disabling right-click, and to reject any browsers other than Netscape 4.72 and IE 5.5. Please bookmark this comment and come back when we've made the entire comment one big Flash animation completely inaccessible to anyone not running Flash or running Flash but on dial-up. PS: we appreciate your business.)
  • by elFarto the 2nd ( 709099 ) on Friday July 23, 2004 @04:47PM (#9783734)

    Perl I believe

    Regards
    elFarto

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