Oh the joys of programming for the web! It's been a few years now since I properly got stuck into web tech. But I need a new website, there are 'new' buzzwords flying around and I feel out of touch...
I have recently been lucky enough to expand my mind with the joys of writing in the highly evolved world of Objective C and Cocoa. Everything you can think of has been thought of, and structured in the most pleasant and logical fashion.
Which contrasts completely with my memory of the ever changing and conflicting soup of 'standards' that power the web.
OK, first buzzword to tackle is 'xhtml', something I have been made to feel..
1) "I absolutely have to know"
2) "makes pages display properly"
3) "makes pages render super fast"
4) "cure for AIDS, and my entrance to the cool gang"
I'm halfway through the tutorial, and I cant help thinking I have been here before... I continue until the end regardless, sit back and think "what a crock of shit!".
There is almost no difference between html and xhtml, (unless of-coarse you had some VERY bad programming habits) and I fail to see how it warrants all the surrounding hoohaa.
No significant speed difference will be achieved except for a few less cycles of the CPU which is neither here nor there in the modern world. And all other supposed benefits are dubious at best.
On further investigation, I find it's still the looneys at W3C pulling the strings. These guys are on crack (allegedly) and IMO have had an equal part to play in the fractured world of the web as MSFT.
Explained better here...
http://www.webdevout.net/articles/beware-of-xhtml
I will continue to use xhtml as I unknowingly always have done...
Right, next up is the fabled "Web 2.0" buzzword, forgive me for being a sceptic, but it's exuding something its blatantly not already, and I know little about it. Maybe a complete replacement for the HTTP protocol??!!
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