XHTML Learning Chart…
We’ve prepared an overview chart for those of you coming to grips with XHTML. There are two versions — a validated XHTML document (with live learning links — you can study its source code), and a PNG image for easy reference and download.
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HTML - XHTML - XML Comparison Chart…
This chart is meant to be a quick overview for Open Source WebMasters learning about XHTML and asking, “why switch from HTML to XHTML?” It is meant to ease some of the transition pains as HTML dies, and XHTML comes to life. It is by no means comprehensive, though you should watch this page (subscribe to the Open Source WebMaster Blog RSS feed) for updates. See general notes at the bottom of this post.
Notes…
TIP: Use the AMAYA Editor to write your XHTML code, and when learning create a test document in the WYSIWYG editing window, then examine the code to see how this editor (developed by the W3C), writes clean XHTML code.
- First, I wish to thank the W3C.org, W3Schools.com, WestCiv.com, and WikiPedia.org for their fine reference articles on this subject.
- Browser Acceptance: Internet Explorerer lags, as usual. Even IE7 fails on some CSS standards and so it is listed in Red on the chart (see WestCiv.com Browser Support Charts)
- XHTML or XML?: There’s a place for both, but for web developers and designers the key for now is to use XHTML.
- Why include only SVG as a capability of XHTML?: In the interests simplicity, a number of things have been left off including the ability to code for MathML, GraphML, and MusicXML.
- The arrows in the DTD listings at bottom of chart indicate code that should be unbroken and all on one line.
Written by: Scott Frangos
This entry was posted on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 at 10:17 pm and is filed under OS WebMaster, Web Help. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
January 6th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
My only negative comment is that your page didn’t specify the date of the article (important because of the rapid change of web design issues).
However, I’d like to find out as a beginning web designer if I should bother studying XHTML (I am quite familiar with HTML but haven’t put up a website yet, or should I just go right into XML? Is XML supported by the browsers of the past 2 or 3 years, or only the latest versions?
My first intention is to try affiliate marketing, and then go into other applications of web design.
Thanks
Dan
January 7th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Hi Dan -
Good to hear from you. The date of the chart is the same as the date of the article — 15th November 2007. It is in gray at top. XHTML seems like the best choice for you. I teach at the college level, and this is what we tell our students. Why? Well, you’ve heard a lot about Web 2.0 technology being driven by AJAX? Well AJAX stand for Asynchronous JavaScript and… XHTML. The “X” in both stands for eXtensible. Another reason, is that XHTML is pretty much HTML with some XML concepts included. I don’t think we’re going backwards to straight HTML, but learn XHTML and you learn HTML too. Finally, avoid straight XML for now (and leave AJAX for later too). XML is different than what you need to create web pages. Good question. Best of luck and success. Scott
January 7th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Hi Scott,
Thanks for the prompt reply and the information I needed.
Dan