Comments on: Basic HTML For Bloggers November – Tech Tuesday

By: This was the Week that Was, Vol. 22 | Sephy's Platzish

This was the Week that Was, Vol. 22 | Sephy's Platzish — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:28:46 +0000

[...] This week around the blog, I talked about another element of HTML – Fonts, and Snos talked about one of the basics of HTML – the Horizontal Rule. [...]

By: hari

hari — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:10:53 +0000

Hm… I’d rather you concentrated on XHTML which is the future. HTML has largely been supplanted by XHTML and CSS, so you should write more on that.

Many of your tags use outdated HTML 4.0 attributes. For instance, instead of

It should be

and all tags should be compulsorily closed, according to XHTML (either using the shorthand

. XHTML is much cleaner (note also that XHTML is case sensitive – it still works with browsers, because of backward compatibility, but all XHTML tags should be lower-case)

Here’s a place to start to learn about why XHTML is better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML

By: christine

christine — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:36:09 +0000

snos–you are so smart–thanks for the great info!

By: rye

rye — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:18:09 +0000

Thanks so much for all the info – this will be prove to be VERY useful! I’m looking forward to next Tuesday’s post

By: Elements of HTML - Fonts | Sephy's Platzish

Elements of HTML - Fonts | Sephy's Platzish — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:56:41 +0000

[...] the companion post to this, Snoskred takes a look at the Horizontal Rule W3 Schools: Font Tag W3 Schools: Span Tag What’s wrong with the Font tag Beyond the FONT tag: [...]

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:48:13 +0000

You show me things I did not realize existed. For example, today I am working on my Google reader…

By: teeni

teeni — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:47:41 +0000

Awesome – I used to know all these and have forgotten many of them – this is great that you’ll post them on Tuesdays! Love it! Now I don’t have to go searching through my books to find these! Thank you!

By: Julie Pippert

Julie Pippert — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:07:07 +0000

Wonderful…thanks! This is bookmarked!

Julie
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