| XHTML is the big in-thing in web designing these days. | | | | XHTML Coding for cross browser compatibility. This |
| It is the fastest growing trend that has now become | | | | takes us to the question of 'Valid XHTML'. |
| a highly sought after service. So what is XHTML, and | | | | If there is valid XHTML, is there any invalid XHTML as |
| how does it guarantees browser compatibility? Let us | | | | well? What is valid, and how could one guess |
| study it in some detail. | | | | whether a particular coding is really valid or not? |
| Plato once said, necessity is the mother of all | | | | There are many websites that display the "VALID |
| inventions. HTML, which was once a popular source | | | | XHTML" tags in the form of images, text and/or |
| code, is now overshadowed by XHTML, i.e., | | | | banners. This means that they conform to the W3C's |
| Extensible Hypertext Markup Language. Earlier there | | | | (World Wide Web Consortium) coding standards. To |
| were few web browsers. But as different web | | | | ensure that valid XHTML remains valid, W3C, an |
| browsers have also marked the industry with its | | | | international standards organization, has laid out few |
| advent today, it becomes important to please all of | | | | rules for XHTML coding. Designers follow these rules |
| them (as you don't know which browser the | | | | guidelines while coding XHTML. Valid XHTML, allow me |
| end-user uses). XHTML allows the site to divide the | | | | to compare it, is just like White hat SEO- it pays you |
| content from its appearance through CSS (Cascading | | | | the long way. Just like grey hat or black hat SEO can |
| Style Sheet). This makes the layout equally appealing | | | | be done easily, but doesn't pay you for long, invalid |
| and compressed for all web browsers. | | | | XHTML can't reap you benefits for long. |
| Web has crossed its comprehensible boundaries. It | | | | So if the XHTML service provider tries to play smart |
| started with being on our system desktop, shifted to | | | | by displaying "Valid XHTML" in its website, without |
| laptop screens, and has now reached our cell phones | | | | mentioning the "W3C standards", you might want to |
| and Personal Digital Assistants. Hence it not only | | | | check its credibility again. An XHTML provider, who |
| becomes important, but mandatory to do valid | | | | has met all W3C standards, would flaunt about it! |