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Jack Roscoe
Jack Roscoe

Reputation: 4313

Is it considered more professional to write a website in strict rather than transitionl html?

I was wondering if it was considered more professional to write a website in strict xhtml rather than transitional.

Is it something that should be done as you advance as a web developer, or is it irrelevant?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 194

Answers (6)

TRiG
TRiG

Reputation: 10643

If you want to be "professional" and up-to-date use <!DOCTYPE html>. This won't break anything and it's as modern as you can get.

Upvotes: 0

whostolemyhat
whostolemyhat

Reputation: 3123

It doesn't make much of a difference which you use - just try to be as consistent as possible with your mark-up. If nothing else, it makes search+replace much easier.

Upvotes: 0

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 943510

With the possible exception of the (rarely needed) start attribute, the difference between Strict and Transitional boils down to "Things you should not have used since Netscape 4 stopped being a dominant browser".

So, the question is a tricky one as, if you learned HTML this side of the millennium, you shouldn't have been using Transitional in the first place (now let us have a minutes silence as we lament the poor quality of over-popular tutorials (such as one from an organization that gets a lot of glory reflected off the W3C due to its similar name … and I'm ranting, so I'll stop now).

Upvotes: 5

Joshua
Joshua

Reputation: 43268

I write HTML 4.01, either traditional or strict.

The truth is XHTML is broken and a correct rendering on a HTML 4.01 browser will litter your page with right angle brackets.

If you think you know how <br/> is defined in the HTML 4 standard, think again.

 This sentence is <br/> across two lines.

When read by a strict parser becomes

 This sentences is
 > across two lines.

The SGML language form which HTML is built on has a shorttag feature known as NET. The transformation is "<br /" -> "<br></br>". So, "<br/>" burns.

Upvotes: -1

Wai Wong
Wai Wong

Reputation: 2843

Here is an article I found yesterday. Read the markup part, its the first part :D http://davidwalsh.name/get-over-it

Upvotes: -2

Steven
Steven

Reputation: 18014

On the marketing side, you might get a slightly better response for saying that you right in strict XHTML, but really, the choice doesn't matter. Transitional has some quirks that improve backwards compatibility with elements from HTML4 and older, but which have since been disfavoured and thus deprecated in the strict flavours (e.g., frames). If you're learning how to write markup these days, you're learning all XHTML anyway, so you can feel free to use strict.

Short answer: it doesn't matter.

Upvotes: 0

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