How do Web standards relate to semantically correct document structure?
While these two things are related and both fall into Web best practices they are different and often confused. With a semantically correct XHTML document for example, every tag would have meaning. That is, you would use a
tag for a heading and a
for a paragraph. While this does help with document structure and fits right alongside the essence of what Web standards are all about, it does not need to be done to insure standards compliance. Proper document structure can definitely help you along the road to full standards compliance, and simplified XHTML seems to really go hand in hand with a semantically correct document. But they are two different things. More on this from Jason Kottke. Discuss this article over at Asterisk* Send feedback about this article.
