Final thoughts on XHTML and HTML

This is our seventh and last post on XHTML/HTML.  With this post we want to draw some conclusions with regards to all the information that was provided.

HTML and XHTML offer very similar functionality in terms of describing and marking up documents for the web.  XHTML has a number of advantages in terms of its interoperability with other markup documents, and its consistent syntax.

A few years ago, it seemed clear that XHTML would be the “future of the web”, but more recently, HTML has grown in popularity, as browser support for XHTML has often not kept pace with developments. The competition on who is going to be more popular is still open. even if we believe XHTML has some definite advantages.

But if you’re ready to make the transition from HTML to XHTML, you’ll want to check out Aggiorno – a plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio that has embedded knowledge about the differences between HTML and XHTML – to make your transition easier.  It automatically targets XHTML 1.0 Transitional documents and makes sure your pages are error-free and up-to-date before going on to offer additional improvements, such as improving accessibility, automatically upgrading table layouts to use CSS and extracting master pages from sites with similar formatting.

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Friday, July 04, 2008

Some interesting additional notes on SGML history.

“The Standard Generalized Markup Language (ISO 8879:1986 SGML) is an ISO Standard metalanguage in which one can define markup languages for documents. SGML is a descendant of IBM's Generalized Markup Language (GML), developed in the 1960s”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGML" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGML


“SGML was originally designed to enable the sharing of machine-readable documents in large projects in government, law and industry, which have to remain readable for several decades—a very long time in information technology. It has also been used extensively in the printing and publishing industries, but its complexity has prevented its widespread application for small-scale general-purpose use.

Primarily intended for text and database publishing, one of its first major applications was the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), which was and is wholly marked up using an SGML-like markup.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGML" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGML


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