Topic Why xhtml?

Alan10

XHTML is often mentioned when we talk about web standards of different kinds, and many believe that it’s the future of the web. What makes xhtml more better than html and why?

flipax

HTML was the old way and is often written in a "dirty" way or w/o necessarily following the rules but since the web is moving towards XML something has to be done about it so it became XHTML. Actually, most tags and codes looks the same, except that the rules were strictly implemented.

harvcr

Yeah... Html and Xhtml are almost the same thing. They offer the same functionality and some people like me cannot find a difference in between the 2. The code is essentially the same but Xhtml has newer rules, which I don't know what they are yet

spidy2222

well xhtml might not last long... it'll be a matter of time before people go for java as i see~ it have better attraction compare to others, well at least thats what i see.

Indiescribe

The Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, or XHTML, is a markup language that has the same depth of expression as HTML, but also conforms to XML syntax, ie its HTML + XML

The most important thing is the requirement that the document must be well-formed and that all elements must be explicitly closed as required in XML. In XML, all element and attribute names are case-sensitive, so the XHTML approach has been to define all tag names to be lowercase.