--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, "John C. Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I donât know much about XHTML (other than that it is well-formed HTML) so how does a browser go about rendering it? I mean can you do everything you can do in HTML with XHTML? That is, is it a perfectly reasonable thing to do to represent an entire web page in XHTML and not be limited in some way? >
Functionally, XHTML is nearly equivalent to HTML. There are some gotchas though. For instance, - though browsers support it, the 'target' attribute on links is not part of XHTML 1.x (so your XHTML will not be compliant). Additionally, other HTML deprecated attributes/elements are similarly not compliant (meaning your browser will render and function on them as they would in HTML, but validators will complain). However you should be aware that publishing in XHTML has the following drawbacks: - IE does not support XHTML (the MIME type application/xhtml+xml) so you will need to use some server-side content negotiation (look if the HTTP_ACCEPT header supports that MIME type) and switch to text/html for IE users or they will be left out in the cold - XHTML is XML, so processing will stop if you've made any errors in your page (the entire page will not render, in Firefox this is called a 'Yellow Screen Of Death'). This is good to detect errors if you're publishing a 'static' site, but if you have dynamic or user-contributed content it is much trickier Regards, Jeff Schiller ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
