From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Thu Nov 29 19:34:59 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 30 Nov 2001 03:34:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 13162 invoked from network); 30 Nov 2001 03:34:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m5.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 30 Nov 2001 03:34:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Nov 2001 03:34:58 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.6/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id fAU3YvQ19389 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:34:57 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:34:57 -0700 (MST) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: [OT] XHTML (was: lojban.org transferred!) In-Reply-To: <20011129185901.D27369@digitalkingdom.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE From: Jay Kominek X-Yahoo-Profile: jfkominek X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 12403 On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > Can you give me a basic idea of why I should be interested in xhtml, or > a pointer to same? I've never heard of it before. XHTML is an XML DTD which encodes HTML4.0. Its basically (as I understand it, I'm aware of somewhat more XML-aware fellow in our midst, he might know more), meant to bring HTML under the umbrella of XML, and simplify the parsing process, and make it easy to extend HTML without breaking older clients. Part of my personal homepage was XHTML, but I tend to make frequent changes and usually forget to remain XML compliant, so it currently fails well-formedness. You could still peek if you wanted, the key stuff is still present at the top, I just don't have all my tags and whatnot balanced. If you don't care for XML, or don't see the point of it, then you're not likely to care for XHTML. (Personally, I feel that XHTML for the website would be nice, but it doesn't really gain us anything in terms of accessibility by users. There are better ways in which the website might be made more effective than XHTML.) - Jay Kominek Plus =C3=A7a change, plus c'est la m=C3=AAme chose