by a more exacting and demanding dtd, the XHTML version does not have to handle as many permutations of tags.
Which will speed rendering, since the data is by definition better, and possibly the parsing (if they use different parse engines for each dtd) lower case vs mixed case parameters all in "" open/close tags have to be in inside out order. non closed tags are closed. etc. of course, html could follow the same good data standards, which might negate the advantage, and much xhtml is not compliant, which can't help at all. On 8/22/07, Charlie Griefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/22/07, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://www.twoninemedia.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/4/19/TabledLayoutsvsCSSLayouts > > > > from the blog: > > The CSS-based layout was 33% FASTER than the table-based layout on a T1 > > connection, and 59% FASTER on a 56K connection. > > > > The layout in this case was strict xhtml using a css layout while the other > > used a table table layout (ie., html 4.01). > > Aye... i'm not debating the benefit (speed) of CSS vs table based > layout. I'm just saying that it's adding a new element (CSS) into the > HTML vs. XHTML debate. I understood you to be saying that XHTML was > faster to load than HTML. But you had also mentioned the XHTML/CSS > combination, so i was saying the speed is probably due to the CSS, and > -not- strictly the XHTML vs HTML. > > I can use a table based layout in XHTML just as easily as in HTML. > It's legal and valid. Bad design, but that's irrelevant to the point > of the discussion :) In any case, I would think that the difference > (if any) in loading times between XHTML and HTML (assuming the same > layout, be it CSS or tables) would be fairly negligible. Of course, I > could be wrong. I don't have data to back this up. I just don't see > anything in XHTML as making it "more lean" than HTML. > > > -- > Charlie Griefer > > ================================================ > "...All the world shall be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, > and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch > you, digger, listener, runner, prince with a swift warning. > Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed." > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:241157 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
