Thread: how is XHTML easier than HTML when getting info to a handheld device?

does that mean XHTML better/faster for internet browsing on a traditional computer?

In theory, the rules are simpler and violating lots of them results in an error message rather than spending processor power to recover. In practise, mobile devices now have fast enough processors that this doesn't matter.

The theory also applies to desktops, but suffers from a few problems. The main one is that Internet Explorer doesn't support XHTML (note that a document which conforms to the XHTML specification but is served as text/html is treated as HTML, so doesn't count), and Firefox doesn't do incremental rendering (so it doesn't show anything to the user until the entire document is downloaded, making it take longer before the user can start reading).

XHTML is the standard for hand held devices and is faster loading on hand held devices. It is just simply a WC3 standard. It is also becoming a standard alongside using CSS on personal computers. They are used hand-in-hand when programming on web pages because of the ease-of-use as a traditional mark-up language while phasing out tradition HTML.

This makes more sense instead of using so many lines of HTML and JavaScript -- i.e. 1,000 lines of code can now just be 300 or so. It's very efficient and loads a heck of a lot faster on mobile devices and even non-mobile devices (such as personal computers).

XHTML Offers the following benefits according to Tech Republic:
- Extensibility with XML (it is of course like XML in many ways)
- Interoperability and portability
- Improves standardization
- Improves accessibility (VERY IMPORTANT***)
- Encourages cleaner code
- Enforces best practices
- Makes more tools available (also very important to some developers)

Also, XHTML increases the availability of information across multiple channels (the rave of the late 1990s), as you will recall, of the multi channel approach to marketing and availability of information. This is very, very important to users and businesses alike. It allows information to be accessed and distributed in many different ways: such as via the web to computers, laptops, hand held devices, printed easily, sent to e-mail addresses etc. etc. and ALWAYS retain proper formatting for the client they are being sent to.

This is a major advantage of proper use of XHTML. And a major advantage of XHTML used properly in modern day CMS and WCM vendors' applications!

It is quite the standard approach...or should be. IE7, FireFox and any current browser as of mid-2007 and now 2008 uses these standards (as do Opera and Safari).

Please see:
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-22-5237333.html
For further details about each bulleted point above. It offers an excellent article.