Re: Start with HTML or XHTML? (slightly OT)

I would recommend they dive straight into xhtml as this is what will be
needed to make the eventual transition to xml. It's not a whole lot
different than html. It's just stricter. For example, all tags etc. must be
in lower case, all attributes must be enclosed in double quotes, all tags
must have a closing tag etc... and it's backward compatible for most
browsers except the REALLY old ones I would guess.

HTH,
Lisa

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Lisa Bradshaw ,  Web Designer

Crescendo Web Design - http://www.web-design-cs.com
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From: "LSN Bluff" <lsnbluff(at)hotmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 7:35 AM
Subject: Start with HTML or XHTML? (slightly OT)


> As a web development instructor at a community college, I plan the courses
> for our students.
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> I'm asking experienced developers for your opinions on what you would
> recommend a beginning web developer learn FIRST these days. (We all know
> that you never stop learning in this field...) Would you recommend that a
> beginner start with HTML and later transition to XHTML? OR would you
> recommend that the beginner start coding pages using XHTML syntax right
from
> the start?
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> Thanks in advance for your opinions!
>
> Terry Felke
> http://www.harper.cc.il.us/bus-ss/cis/info/webdev.htm
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