Re: Fw: meaning of deprecated

by "Ineke van der Maat" <inekemaa(at)xs4all.nl>

 Date:  Wed, 25 Jul 2001 20:23:53 -0700
 To:  <bart(at)gigabee.com>,
<hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
 References:  site5
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Hello Bart,

You are right: there is a difference between XHTML tanssitional and XHTML
strict.

There is  really a difference between HTML and XHTML, because XHTML  is a
rewritten version of  the HTML 4.01 specification  in XML .

Greetings
Ineke


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bart Szyszka" <bart(at)gigabee.com>
To: "Ineke van der Maat" <inekemaa(at)xs4all.nl>; "Ed Peddycoart"
<epeddycoart(at)cg2.com>; <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: meaning of deprecated


> > The difference between HTML and XHTML is that XHTML is only for the
> > structural elements, all the presentational elements you must put in
your
> > stylesheet and the classnames must reflext the structure-element you use
in
> > your page and really cascading as the name CSS means.
>
> That's not what the difference between HTML and XHTML is. It's what
> the difference between HTML/XHTML Transitional and HTML/XHTML
> Strict are. The differences between HTML and XHTML mainly have to
> do with the strictness of the coding itself like with quotes being
required
> on everything, all tags needing to be lower case and closed, and stuff
like
> that. Those differences are outlined in more detail at the XHTML specs:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#diffs
>
> The W3C recommends seperating style from structure (by using stylesheets)
> for both HTML4 and XHTML. It's only a matter of what degree you want to
> go with that between the Transitional and Strict versions of both.
>
> --
> Bart Szyszka  bart(at)gigabee.com  ICQ:4982727
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