XHTML documents look more professional and eradicate sloppy coding habits. They still allow us to develop pages for older browsers, however, by using the transitional DTD declaration.
One of the hardest things to do with your site is to modify its pages to conform to the XHTML strict DTD. If you have a play around with the XHTML validator at
, then you will see what I’m talking about.
In my opinion, XHTML is a very good idea. I like the idea of using an XML parser to navigate through XHTML files. I also like the idea of mixing HTML with XML… they are the two most popular markup languages in the world and should compliment each other well. Hopefully, XHTML will deprecate HTML over the next couple of years.
Although we’re along way from every site on the web becoming XHTML compliant, it’s good to know that there are standards set in place that we can follow as professional web developers.
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