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Why Switch to XHTML?

April 26, 2017accessibility html Software Switch XHTML XML

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Why Switch to XHTML?

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By Lee Underwood For Web developers, the learning process never seems to end. New technologies are constantly being developed, the manipulation of multimedia seems to know no bounds, the proliferation of knowledge, distribution and programming languages continue to develop and grow, and, of course, design standards are constantly being upgraded in an effort to keep up with it all. The coding of Web pages is one place where the learning appears endless. Depending upon how long you’ve been coding, you may have gone through a few “upgrades” of HTML, culminating in version 4.01. These “upgrades” are a part of the standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in an effort to develop common protocols to ensure the continued interoperability of the World Wide Web. The latest version of HTML is 4.01, which was a minor update of 4.0, and was released in December, 1999. However, it’s not the current standard for coding Web pages, according to the W3C. The new standard (or “upgrade”) is XH