- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:29:05 +0300 (EEST)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Beton, Richard wrote: > Why use XHTML1.1? Because it's a proper subset with no <font> etc, so it > forces you to use stylesheets properly. I'm afraid this is fairly off-topic in this list, but as that common claim has been expressed, I cannot resist the temptation to remind that it is both wrong and misleading. For some odd reason, people seem to think that XHTML 1.1 is stricter than XHTML 1.0. You can achieve exactly the same strictness in XHTML 1.0 Strict, too, and in HTML 4.01 Strict, which is what your documents will actually be treated as when sent to Internet Explorer, no matter what formal liturgy you use. Moreover, while using any of these strict versions HTML "forces" the author to use stylesheets if he wants to affect presentation significantly, it by no means forces him to use stylesheets _properly_. People can, and often do, author HTML pages with little more than <div> and <span>, styled with CSS using fixed font sizes, etc. Regarding the use of validators, if you wish to use a validator to check that your (or your staff's) markup does not contain any undesired presentational markup, you surely do _not_ need to sing the XHTML 1.1 song for that. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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