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Is XHTML good enough?

Monday, July 30th, 2007

There are many false benefits of XHTML promoted on the Web. Let’s clear up some of them at a glance:

XHTML does not promote separation of content and presentation any more than HTML does. XHTML has all of the same elements and attributes (including presentational ones) that HTML has, and it doesn’t offer any additional CSS [...]

The title and alt attributes

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

When browser vendors bend the standards and implement something in a different way than what the specification states, they may cause problems, or at least confusion. One example of this is the way certain browsers, the most widely used being Internet Explorer for Windows, handle alt attributes (popularly and incorrectly referred to as “alt tags”).
Alternate [...]

HTML vs XHTML?

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

It seems like the eternal question amongst web developers: HTML or XHTML? Wherever I look there seems to be posts in forums raising the question, web developers asking me or other people write blog posts about what they believe is the right way to go. I’m not writing this post to tell you what the [...]