Many Web pages today are poorly written. Syntactically incorrect HTML code may work in most browsers even if it does not follow HTML rules. Browsers employ heuristics to deal with these flawed Web pages; however, Web-enabled wireless devices (such as PDAs) cannot accommodate these hefty Web browsers. The next step in HTML’s evolution comes in the form of XHTML (eXtended Hypertext Markup Language), which is basically a combination of HTML and XML.
Read full article: XHTML (eXtended Hypertext Markup Language): An Overview
Author byline: The author is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He keeps a tech blog at Crimson Crux and a literary blog at Slip of the Pen. He is also with Ituloy AngSulong.
Thursday, February 8, 2007
