Hi Ineke,


Guess indeed, we're looking forward to an alternative to HTML coding.  It
will take quite a few years before it's common use though (my guess? 5
years, maybe even 7).  And I'm afraid we will not be able to predict in any
way if it IS going to be XHTML or maybe something else, more user-friendly,
more into doing what we can do now today.  You see, with CSS, you can do a
lot, but it doesn't offer alternatives to anything we can in HTML.  It's not
a fast for the first coding steps, and it is generally ahrder to make
complicated sites work in all browsers.  All these will eventually result in
a good alternative or replacement for the good old html, but what I can see
now is in today's school, they learn both the old way and the CSS way.  They
then receive different tasks to learn how to use it and eventually make a
page working in all browsers.  So we now have some kind of hybrid, because
it's impossible to switch from html to anything else, mainly but not only
because many data has been transformed to be used with html and no-one
serious will just skip that.  Too many large firms, governments and
consumers are involved.  W3C can do what it wants, no-one is going to switch
over in one go.  Ask Bill Gates.

Kind regards,
vriendelijke groeten,


Klaas De Waele




-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Ineke van der Maat [mailto:inekemaa(at)xs4all.nl]
Verzonden: woensdag 6 juni 2001 4:32
Aan: Klaas De Waele; Szaro, Peter; hwg-critique(at)hwg.org
Onderwerp: Re: http://peterszaro.com


Hallo Klaas,

You are right concerning this moment.

But in future wll XHTML the new standard as I can read in the W3C-site.
Nokia will start to sell a GSM only showing CSS and XHTML- build pages very
soon.
I don't want to build pages only to see in some mediatypes and not in the
other. Wasting of time and energy I think.
 I try  to learn  XHTML and CSS now to be ready in  time. That is also the
reason I offer the fansite in 2 versions. Because I also know that most of
the internet users have version  IE 4 or 5.
I have IE 5.5 but have also Netcape 4.7 , 6.01 and Opera 5.02  And also a
screnreader.

 CSS is often not correctly used I think. It is only meant to diivide the 
mark up of a page fron the real content . So I try to use that and I often
use two stylesheets in a page. One general for the whole site and one
special for the page when I need  special styles. It is an advise I got and
it works very well.

Greetings from the Netherlands
Ineke

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