A clarifiation on web design
Thanks for all the info. Most of this I am learning in school. Today you have to design for the blind, legally blind, hearing impaired, for small hand held items and large browsers. Yep Firefox is taking over. Right now I am reading the Zen of CSS book and every other chapter talks about support problems with IE. I really don't like to work on
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XML doesn't actually do anything by itself. It's essentially just a standard for designing document formats. XML says that there are elements delimited by angled brackets like this and entities delimited with ampersand and semicolon like this &entity;. An actual XML-based document format goes further to specify what actual elements and entities exist.
XHTML is HTML rebuilt using XML. The entities are things like
for paragraph, and the entities are things like é for a lowercase E with an acute accent.
There are quite a few other XML-based formats in wide use, including the SVG format for vector images (Illustrator can export to this format, and web browsers other than IE will display it) and the RSS format used for weblog and news article feeds. They all look similar, with elements and entities as well, but they have different ones from XHTML. Instead of paragraphs and tables, SVG has strokes and circles and filters, and RSS has news items and descriptions and links.
If someone needs to invent a document format, basing ( ... )
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PHP. PHP is an industry de facto standard. Mainly because so many sites are built using it and nearly every web host provider makes it readily available to clients. PHP 5 is the better version. My web host provider finally upgraded to PHP 5. Yay.
XHTML. XHTML is 99% backward compatible with HTML 4, so a page written in XHTML should display properly on any standards compliant browser that has been in use since about 2000. The reason for the "X" is that the W3C standards folks modified HTML to be valid XML. By being valid XML, it makes life easier for developers to write programs using existing XML parsers and transforms. It also forces the web page to be properly constructed. In the "old days", many web developers were sloppy and left off tags because the browser would fix it. With XHTML, you have to include the proper tags and ending tags for the document to be valid.
DIV tag. I think there is an option you can set whether Dreamweaver uses divisions or tables for layout. ( ... )
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