> >Anyway, what's wrong with HTML 2.0 (with CSS)?
>
> Nothing really - I was merely looking at some improvements, and found
> HTML2.0 to be a bit of a straight-jacket :-)
>
> If I were to replace HTML 2.0 with XHTML 1.1, would anyone really have a
> problem ? ie. would it prevent anyone from upgrading to a release with
> only XHTML output ?
I believe that XHTML 1.0 Transitional would be better - at least with this
you get some minimal control over more essential things like cellpadding
in tables, which the rather more harsh XHTML1.1 doesn't allow, as I
recall. This can then be overriden easily by a stylesheet if wanted,
anyway.
If done skillfully, people with older browsers shouldn't really notice the
difference between HTML 2.0 outputted pages and XHTML1.x pages. Those who
have standards-compliant browsers, though - which are the vast majority
now - however, will.
> > I can't, but using <table> I can do the bars without <img>. See
> > http://www.jessen.ch/spamassassin-stats/index.html (ignore the MSIE
> > oddities).
>
> You can't do BARSTYLE though, can you? I could lose BARSTYLE if it was
> necessary to upgrade to XHTML for other reasons, but I don't see a
> compelling reason.
XHTML using CSS gives the standards-orientated web developer much more
control - way beyond, for instance, what the bars look like - over the
look of the page as well as potentially reducing the download size, by
moving style instructions to the stylesheet.
As such a developer, I always endeavour to validate to the XHTML standard,
knowing that this separation of presentation/content has to be the way to
go. Anything which promotes adherence to such standards, which we must
remember are several years old now and well supported by browsers, should
be encouraged, in my view.
Martin Lucas-Smith ** www.lucas-smith.co.uk
Cambridge **
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