Another article about the problems with xhtml
Hi!
Maybe not all read Anne van Kesteren's weblog about HTML/XHTML/CSS...
There is another interesting article, why not to use XHTML. - As
mentioned before, one problem is that XHTML has to be served as
xhtml+xml and _not_ as text/html to keep the standards, and browsers
would go into Quirks mode, if not. Now she talks about the problems
with mozilla, where xhtml is not fully implemented and about pages not
being shown incremental but when fully loaded - letting the user wait.
http://annevankesteren.nl/archives/2004/12/mozilla-faq-on-xhtml
Beside that, there are lots of bad usages of html in the code of
debian-www, as I have seen, The cleaning up to be able to got to html
strict, would be a great work, I think. The work I am currently doing
for packages.debian.org makes it not only going css but gong strict
DTD, too. Code decreases a lot.
That xhtml may be easier to validate is one thing. But code has to be
written by humans and there are readers, who want to get the pages
displayed correctly and immediately.
Beside that, there are lots of bad usages of html in the code of
debian-www, as I have seen, The cleaning up to be able to got to html
strict, would be a great work, I think. The work I am currently doing
for packages.debian.org makes it not only going css but going strict
DTD, too. Code decreases a lot.
Just my two cents...
Jutta
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