XHTMl/CSS vs HTML

Hello,

I'm posting this thread today to try to understand the difference between XHTML/CSS and HTML. I searched google and really didn't find much besides basic coding, but yet the coding for xhtml look pretty much exactly like html. Could someone please clear this up for me as I'm trying to get a better understanding of XHTML. Also could you please post me some good tutorials sites for xhtml/css, I'd really appreciate and anticipate for your replies.

Thanks

 

XHTML is XML reformulated for HTML. To use it properly, you should serve it as application/xml+xhtml, but very few people do this. In addition, XHTML does not work in IE and Microsoft has no plans to ever support XHTML. So it gets interpreted as "tag soup" or, iow, broken HTML.

Since it gets interpreted as broken HTML, why bother? That's a point of contention among some people. Personally, I use proper and valid HTML though I long for the day I can use XHTML which does work properly on all modern browsers (meaning not IE).

 

That's something I did not know. And I'd say the majority of people use IE.

 

drhowarddrfine is correct. For detailed information and examples visit ..........

http://jp29.org/test.php
http://jp29.org/testx.html

JFP

 

Just under 70% and declining.

 

Shame isn't it

 

No. IE is the worst browser out there. And I guarantee 99.9% of professional web designers and developers would agree with me.

 

Yup. I agree. Once I switched to Firefox, I actually went around my families computers and switched them to Firefox.

Doing a lot of webdesign, I feel Firefox is easier to code with, so mostly I check my work on it and then change the code up at the very end for all the other browsers.

I took a look at my website stats and probobly 80% of my visitors are using Firefox.

Thats my 2 cents

 

The trend and future of (x)html code are html -> xhtml -> xml .

Finding tutor from google
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=xhtml+html+comparison&btnG=Search

Some xhtml and html difference threads by me.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1151373
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=936660

 

well i usually use html although it may have pros and cons of xhtml and xml so its best that i tried everything and see the difference.

 

.......... and XHTML+RDFa via the Semantic Web

JFP

 

Thanks for all the replies everyone. Really appreciate it.

 

True IE sucks but me as a web developer I make sure my work runs in IE the way I want then Firefox. Why? because without a doubt most people use IE. I've been to other countries and lived in a different country and people don't even know what Firefox is. Firefox is popular in US but in other countries not so much.

 

All web pages should be composed to be interoperable, that is, functional in all User-Agents (graphical Browsers, textual Browsers, Screen Readers, Search Engines & hand-held devices).

JFP

 

What I meant was that I first code the design so it works fine in IE then fix up the codes so the website works on all browsers.