Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Oct 2006 19:49 UTC
"An old adage states that a frog will jump out of boiling water, but can be boiled alive if placed in cold water that is heated at a slow pace. Apparently, the process of making amphibian soup is not entirely unlike the process of cooking up a new web standard. Citing limited adoption of XHTML, Internet innovator and World Wide Web Consortium ringleader Tim Berners-Lee says HTML must be reinvented through a process of incremental change that will build on the existing standard."
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2006-11-01
I'll be taking a college Web design class next semester. Based on coversations with students who've taken the class, we'll be taught HTML 4 transitional (I learned it on my own in 7th grade), no CSS, along with some JavaScript (which left one student thinking she was learning Java) and a little ASP.
Whatever the W3C does does not matter as long as old standards are taught and proprietary standards are used, if the new standards are not broadly supported.
That's true of any language or standard, especially if its difficult to use to create the desired effect.
I always code to the spec most appropriate to the task. Frames don't work well in XHTML so I use HTML quite a bit. Some HTML features have been dropped in XHTML and are difficult to work around so I may use the transitional doctype rather than strict. Regardless I always try to use valid code if possible.