On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:53:43 -0400, j wrote:
> If someone has a good reason not to switch to:
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
As I understand it, XHTML 1.0 was meant to be a stepping stone from SGML
based HTML to XML based XHTML, which suggests that if you're writing new
pages, rather than converting old HTML to XHTML, you should use XHTML 1.1.
So:
If you're going to write in XML/XHTML, use XHTML 1.1
If you're going to write in HTML, use HTML 4.01
*but* as I understand it IE prior to 7 (and possibly IE 7 and IE 8 as
well?) don't recognise xhtml served with the w3c recommended mime type of
"application/xhtml+xml".
So, at the moment, as far as I can tell, the only well documented and
consistently applied and interpreted "standard" across browsers is still
html 4.01.
I discount html5 as it's still a developing standard.
See
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/
Rgds
Denis McMahon
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