home projects speaker

Why XHTML?

Note

Please note that this is an archived post, so links, code and the communicated message might be outdated. YMMV

Found a rather nice thing related to the usage of XHTML. If you are in doubt wether when to use HTML or XHTML, read this:

  • Do you see a need for your work to be extended to other delivery mechanisms such as wireless devices now or in the future?
  • Do you want an educational tool that will transition you and your colleagues from HTML to the XML world with relative ease?
  • Do you want to bring syntactical strength to your Web documents, even if it means compromising certain visual considerations?
  • Are you concerned with following W3C recommendations in order to promote more stable support from the developers of browsers and Web design tools?

If you answered "yes" to any one, or any combination of these questions, then XHTML 1.0 is something you might seriously wish to consider. (Taken from Digital-web.com. ) And to bring you more up-to-date with the XHTML vs HTML fight, the guys at Autistic Cukkoo are quite fed up with it:

There is no doubt that XHTML is hot right now. The myth says that XHTML is much better or stricter than HTML and that web standards require XHTML. The truth is that very few actually benefit at all from using XHTML, mostly because the most popular browser in the world doesn't support XHTML at all. In order to circumvent this not altogether negligible limitation, most people choose to serve their XHTML documents with a text/html media type. The majority of those who do so probably have no idea that it causes user agents to interpret the documents as if they were HTML.

Put in mind, this was in 2004! Are there so many sites with bad html?


About the author

Hi! My name is Alexander, and I am a creative frontender, specializing in UX, accessibility, universal design, frontend-architecture, node and design systems. I am passionate with open source projects and love to dabble with new emerging technologies related to frontend. With over 24 years of frontend experience, I have earned the right to be called a veteran. I am a lover of life, technologist at heart. If I am not coding, I am cooking and I love whisky and cigars. Oh, and coffee, I LOVE coffee!

If you want to know more about me, here is some links you might want to check out: GitHub, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, CodePen, Slides.com, npm,

Speaker

I am also an avid speaker on several topics! Check out some of the things I speak about, and contact me if you are interested in having me at your next event!