Real advantages in using HTML4 strict vs XHTML Translational?

[howa]

Besides

1. matter of taste
2. XHTML content-type issue, i.e. trigger IE quirk mode if send using
the correct xml content type
Are there any real advantage that can differentiates these two?

[Andreas Prilop]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, howa wrote:

Subject: Real advantages in using HTML4 strict vs XHTML Translational?

Are there any real advantage that can differentiates these two?

You are messing different questions. Three separate questions are:

- Strict or Transitional?

- HTML or XHTML?

- text/html or application/xhtml+xml?

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In memoriam Alan J. Flavell
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[Jonathan N. Little]

howa wrote:

Besides

1. matter of taste
2. XHTML content-type issue, i.e. trigger IE quirk mode if send using
the correct xml content type
Are there any real advantage that can differentiates these two?

Well the real point is this. For building a webpage HTML will do
everything you need it to do, whereas with XHTML if you serve it
properly all versions of IE cannot handle it. Period. So unless your
goal is to disenfranchise IE users from your site then use what tool
works, HTML.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

[howa]

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wrote:

howa wrote:

Besides

1. matter of taste
2. XHTML content-type issue, i.e. trigger IE quirk mode if send using
the correct xml content type

Are there any real advantage that can differentiates these two?

Well the real point is this. For building a webpage HTML will do
everything you need it to do, whereas with XHTML if you serve it
properly all versions of IE cannot handle it. Period. So unless your
goal is to disenfranchise IE users from your site then use what tool
works, HTML.

--
Take care,

Jonathan
-------------------
LITTLE WORKS STUDIOhttp://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

Another issue I have found in the past,
even 4.0 strict & XHTML 1.0 translational pages are running in their
standard rendering mode (CSS), they behave are not 100% the same.

[Nikita the Spider]

In article
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howa <ho******@gmail.comwrote:

Besides

1. matter of taste
2. XHTML content-type issue, i.e. trigger IE quirk mode if send using
the correct xml content type

I'm not sure what you consider "the correct xml content type" for XHTML,
but if you send content labeled as 'application/xhtml+xml' to IE6, it
does a lot worse than just trigger quirks mode.

HTML versus XHTMl has been discussed many, many times. Google a little.

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Philip
http://NikitaTheSpider.com/
Whole-site HTML validation, link checking and more

[Bergamot]

howa wrote:

>
even 4.0 strict & XHTML 1.0 translational pages are running in their
standard rendering mode (CSS), they behave are not 100% the same.

What do you mean by "not 100% the same". They are not exactly
pixel-perfect? They likely won't be no matter the DOCTYPE.

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Berg