Advantages of xhtml?

1: Usually loads faster
2: Almost always works perfectly in any good browser
3: It's rumored that SEs can crawl the site faster
4: Sexy button from w3c
5: XHTML is the future, the sooner we get rid of HTML, the sooner browsers will be able to evolve.

This is what i heard about xhtml that its aparently more advanced then html its self its better cleaner, powerful etc but the downside is that its harder to code so im sticking with my ye olde html

i don't know much about html and xhtml but i know that there is hardly any difference in coding xhtml and html, except xhtml has a stricter syntax and html, but it wouldn't make it that much difficult to code with.

Originally Posted by sniper101 ... but the downside is that its harder to code ..

I would write an eloquent counter-point to this, backing up my belief that XHTML is no more difficult to write down than 'ordinary' HTML. But instead I'll just ask; which uneducated baboon told you that?

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One person said that with xhtml and css there is no need for tables to structure your layout. Do you use <li>s and divs then to create the structure of the page ?

With HTML there is no need to use tables. They wern't intended to structure a page, but have been adopted by people back in the early days of the web to create columns for websites, as back then most websites took on a linear approach to "design".

If you want to code a site without using tables to structure your code, then you will mainly use DIVs for the holders and wrappers and LIs for the menu items.

xHTML is more strict. So it is cleaner code and validates if you have a good coder.

Originally Posted by Spawny i don't know much about html and xhtml but i know that there is hardly any difference in coding xhtml and html, except xhtml has a stricter syntax and html, but it wouldn't make it that much difficult to code with.

XHTML is just as easy as HTML. If you know html then it will take about 5-10 minutes to figure out XHTML. It's almost identical, just a slightly different syntax. www.w3schools.com - Will tell you all you need to know.

Yes, XHTML's syntax is just as easy as HTML's. But there is one more thing: XHTML should be semantic. So mainly - no tables for construction.

Originally Posted by htmlmaster 1: Usually loads faster

Yes, but... Web site which use XHTML loads faster cause stylesheets and javascript files and other external files are loaded from browser cache. So it's partially advantage of XHTML.

XHTML is a web standard. We should use web standards to make a good web site, which is accessible for everyone. But web standards is not only syntax. It's a way of thinking to solve problems (i.e. construction of layout).

Originally Posted by joe With HTML there is no need to use tables. They wern't intended to structure a page, but have been adopted by people back in the early days of the web to create columns for websites, as back then most websites took on a linear approach to "design". If you want to code a site without using tables to structure your code, then you will mainly use DIVs for the holders and wrappers and LIs for the menu items.

Thanks. Also do clients prefer to have templates coded in <div>s and <ul>s rather than <table>s ? Are there any advantages to <div>s/<ul>s ?