[Gllug] [OT?] Please sign my Google petition ...

Daniel P. Berrange dan at berrange.com
Wed Jun 9 10:07:10 UTC 2004


On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:02:41AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:51:10AM +0100, Tethys wrote:
> > 
> > Richard Jones writes:
> > 
> > >Just to say that I'm not advocating that Google drop access to sites
> > >which aren't XHTML valid.
> > 
> > Why restrict it to just XHTML? Surely if the site validates, then that's
> > OK. Most of my sites are HTML 4.01 Strict (with a few still Transitional).
> > I don't generally write XHTML because it serves no purpose.
> > 
> > XHTML is purely a marketing gimmick to be buzzword compliant by reworking
> > everything in XML. Bleurgh!
> 
> The real benefit is that XHTML 1.0 Strict (or 1.1, I forget now)
> throws out a load of legacy cruft, like <font>, frames and inline
> Javascript.

HTML 4.0 Strict does that too. The only difference is it doesn't require
the XML syntax for things like empty tags ie <br>  vs <br/>

 http://www.alistapart.com/articles/xhtml

Transitional & Frameset (oth HTML 4 & XHTML versions) are the things
to really avoid.

Dan.
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