- From: Ian B. Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 04:29:14 -0500
- To: Aaron Benjamin Snobel <absnobel@learn.senecac.on.ca>
- CC: site-comments@w3.org
Aaron Benjamin Snobel wrote: > I think xhtml is a good idea but w3 is sure as heck making it hard for > us, webnewbies, to code! > friggin impossible to find answers to problems. like <ol> in a > transitional dtd just doesnt work. something to bout not being inside an > object,map,iframe,ins,del startag....etc . what the hell is this > stuff?!!?! I dont need it. I just want an ordered list damnit. And I for > one certainly cant make heads to tails out of the > http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html > the dtds normative section blows. my brain hurts just looking at and my > sincerest apologies to the creator(s) just reading it thru gives me a > headache actually writing that would give me an aneurism. > anyhow thats my 2 cents and nested flame :) Hi Aaron, I tend to use HTML tidy [1] to convert my HTML to XHTML (and to discover validation errors). Are you authoring by hand or using an authoring tool such as Amaya [2], which creates valid XHTML? - Ian [1] http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/ [2] http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 718 260-9447
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