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Why You Shouldn't Be Using XHTML

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10-09-2008, 03:00 AM
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An article I wrote, thought you guys would benefit from it.

http://magnusfx.com/code/why-you-sho...be-using-xhtml

10-09-2008, 03:06 PM
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This comment made me lol:


My #1 practical reason NOT to use XHTML unless I need it: it takes extra time to type the /> and the code looks uglier.
That's definitely a practical reason. It totally takes me like 2 hours to make sure I have /> for my closing tags. Man, I should just switch to HTML so it only takes me a second instead! phew who would have thought it was that much easier!

10-10-2008, 03:04 AM
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Haha, well its a bad habit that you're going to have to kick when HTML 5 rolls around anyways!

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Originally Posted by Magnus View Post
"when" HTML 5 rolls around anyways!
hah!

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Originally Posted by hjalmar View Post
hah!
You don't think HTML 5 will come out within the span of our lifetimes? You are looking at things from a very short term mentality here. The internet is very young, the internet as we use it now is only a few years old. To say that a nine year old standard will stay forever is ignorant.

I don't like XHTML because I see no advantage besides a tag that says you validate (which I consider among the ranks of the web 2.0 naming fad).

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Originally Posted by Magnus View Post
Haha, well its a bad habit that you're going to have to kick when HTML 5 rolls around anyways!
That's like saying, "never get a new car" or "never get a new cellphone" just because the new one might take some getting used to.

Useless.

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Don't tell you mean it
I just finished learning and going through all the pains of coding one of my templates to make it XHTML compliant

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I agree with Vizon. XHTML is more reliable. If you are unstructured about how you layout your markup it's bad form and leads to more time of bug fixes etc. Coding to a stricter syntax and form will increase your productivity and as you continue to develop as a programmer neater markup will help you develop your skills not to mention allowing you to come back to a piece of work and to be able to quickly recognise what you are looking at, process it etc.

XHTML is a good universal standard that means developers can interchange code without having to spend more time to process the badly written markup.

But each to their own I guess.

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i deal with xml/xsl, so xhtml is a requirement.

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Originally Posted by Village Idiot View Post
You don't think HTML 5 will come out within the span of our lifetimes? You are looking at things from a very short term mentality here. The internet is very young, the internet as we use it now is only a few years old. To say that a nine year old standard will stay forever is ignorant.

I don't like XHTML because I see no advantage besides a tag that says you validate (which I consider among the ranks of the web 2.0 naming fad).
LOL! I'm having a really hard time seeing where i typed anything of that.

Please dont reply when you are drunk. alright?

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