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On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:57:06 +0100, Ganesh wrote
(in article < .com>): > I want to start designing a website using XHTML strict. > > How should I start? I want to save time and get a good design as well. Hi I returned to doing web-sites in the last few months having not done any at all for about five years. Initially I thought that XHTML was "the way to go" so I embarked upon doing everything with XHTML. However there are problems with XHTML, one of which I've encountered and there are lots of people in this forum who will describe in much more detail why XHTML may not be a good idea. The problem I've encountered is that the XHTML declaration at the very top: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> seems to put IE 6 into "quirks mode". It might very well do this with other browsers as well I've only observed this with IE 6. The problem (I guess) is that the browser doesn't understand this very first statement and then says to itself "I must be dealing with a jolly bad HTML site here" and goes into a mode of operation which is anticipating problems. The reality seems to be that the browser's behaviour becomes unpredictable in some situations. So I have started doing everything in HTML 4.01. I think that it would be easy to change the XHTML in the future if I wanted to, if it did indeed become "the next big thing" because in fact all I think I need to do is change the headers at the top and do a find/replace on the ends some of the tags and that kind of thing. However XHTML demands that all tags are closed, it is very fussy in that respect, so I think that for me the thing I'm doing is just making sure all my tags in HTML 4.01 are closed and by this simple measure than I know that conversion to XHTML (if I wished) would be fairly simple. The most exciting thing about the writing HTML today is CSS. This is the massive change which has taken place in the period I have spent away from HTML. I feel that concentrating on CSS is very much the "way to go". If you are not familiar with CSS then you will find it great fun to explore  -- Patrick Brighton, UK <http://www.patrickjames.me.uk> |
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patrick j wrote: > On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:57:06 +0100, Ganesh wrote > (in article < .com>): > > > I want to start designing a website using XHTML strict. > > > > How should I start? I want to save time and get a good design as well. > > Hi > > I returned to doing web-sites in the last few months having not done > any at all for about five years. > > Initially I thought that XHTML was "the way to go" so I embarked upon > doing everything with XHTML. > > However there are problems with XHTML, one of which I've encountered > and there are lots of people in this forum who will describe in much > more detail why XHTML may not be a good idea. > > The problem I've encountered is that the XHTML declaration at the very > top: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> > > seems to put IE 6 into "quirks mode". It might very well do this with > other browsers as well I've only observed this with IE 6. > > The problem (I guess) is that the browser doesn't understand this very > first statement and then says to itself "I must be dealing with a jolly > bad HTML site here" and goes into a mode of operation which is > anticipating problems. > > The reality seems to be that the browser's behaviour becomes > unpredictable in some situations. > > So I have started doing everything in HTML 4.01. > > I think that it would be easy to change the XHTML in the future if I > wanted to, if it did indeed become "the next big thing" because in fact > all I think I need to do is change the headers at the top and do a > find/replace on the ends some of the tags and that kind of thing. > However XHTML demands that all tags are closed, it is very fussy in > that respect, so I think that for me the thing I'm doing is just making > sure all my tags in HTML 4.01 are closed and by this simple measure > than I know that conversion to XHTML (if I wished) would be fairly > simple. > Yes, that is why I think XHTML is good to use. Also, it is not hard to get it to work in IE, you just need to serve it incorrectly as text/html. I personally don't mind throwing IE in to quirks mode eather, as the majority of standards compliant browsers do serve XHTML 1.0 strict served as text/html in standards compliant mode. However, you can only do this with 1.0, it's not recomended to serve 1.1 as text/html, and frankly, I don't see a need to do that anyway. > The most exciting thing about the writing HTML today is CSS. This is > the massive change which has taken place in the period I have spent > away from HTML. I feel that concentrating on CSS is very much the "way > to go". If you are not familiar with CSS then you will find it great > fun to explore > Yes, I agree totally with that. -- Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc |
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