Re: Would you take a complimentary course on HTML from a company whose website looked like this?

You don't need to do XHTML to write Web 2.0 apps, I'm thinking. Not everyone buys into this roadmap.

Putting on my gloves!

As I was just told by our green-haired kid, validating to XHTML is a nice thought but not always useful. IE doesn't support it, anyhow - it converts it to HTML validation under the covers, so what's the point? Putting that little icon on your page? Eventually it won't validate as the standards proceed onward and browser support changes again.

Do you put in that extra time to validate everything, or do you have something that really works? And the validation will fail in a short time, anyhow!

And there is no lockstep roadmap as described here. Yes, should we strive toward the best practices? Of course!

His opinion - which I respect - is that as HTML5 comes into full support, XHTML will drop by the wayside. Again, browser support hurts it - IE just doesn't work as we'd like it to - namely, as the rest of the world does - wait, IS there a "rest of the world"? :-)

Vern

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This is what is called modernization and isn't really a religious war

WEB 1.0 >>> WEB 2.0 >>> Rich Internet Apps
HTML XHTML OOjavascript







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I'm up for starting a religious war!!

As I understand it, several Web developers no longer push for going to XHTML - HTML 5 seems more the goal. Compliance with any of the standards can be difficult, what with browser differences.

That is not to say to use old techniques - no - use DIVs for layout (use tables for tabular data), use CSS, use a js framework, etc.

And I'm intrigued by grids in recent HTML for layout.

There, I've laid down the gauntlet - primarily about XHTML vs HTML 4 or 5 advances.

Vern

Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen wrote:

Den 30/03/10 14.31, Michael Ryan skrev:

I think that's a great point Kelly. I think I'm among a lot of iSeries

folks

that think in terms of lists. That's our background. And I know when

I've

designed web sites, it looks like a list of 'things' cause that's the

way I

think. I can produce some really nice ETL code for loading to web

sites, and

I can write some really good code to process orders from web sites, but

the

whole visual thing isn't me.

Then there are two things you really need to attend to - 1) generate XHTML (i.e. HTML which is well-formed XML) and 2) how to add CSS information so any web designer can sprinkle pixidust over without any change to the XHTML.

Additionally the XHTML can be postprocessed if needed to add all kinds of fancy stuff.