Ajax: Creating Web Pages with Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

Chapter 3. HTML/XHTML If you've made it this far, you're now in the "road warrior" section of the book, where all the reference materials and bizarre ideas dwell. The origin of this section goes all the way back to the trunk of my ...

3.1. The Difference Between HTML and XHTML From its very beginning, Hypertext Markup Language is what has made the World Wide Web possible. It both conveys the thoughts of the person who created the page and defines nearly every aspect of what w...

3.2. Elements and Attributes I'm not sure why, but there seems to be a law stating that the sections of books intended for reference must be both dry and boring. Please bear with me as I try to conform to this law while describing the relationship...

3.3. Summary In this, hopefully, refresher/reference chapter, some of the differences between the older HTML and the new and improved XHTML were covered. Special attention was paid to the fact that XHTML, unlike its cousin HTML, must be well forme...