The xHTML that the 3650 supports, confuses me. What is it exactly, and does it let you browse simple HTML pages via the phone's built in software?
What exactly does xHTML look like then?!
W3C HTML Home Page: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML�) is a family of current and future document types and modules that reproduce, subset, and extend HTML, reformulated in XML. XHTML Family document types are all XML-based, and ultimately are designed to work in conjunction with XML-based user agents. XHTML is the successor of HTML, and a series of specifications has been developed for XHTML.
...With a wealth of features, XHTML 1.0 is a reformulation of HTML 4.01 in XML, and combines the strength of HTML 4 with the power of XML.
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xHTML is just like HTML, but it is much stricter in the placement of code,
and it should/must use CSS for the formatting.
[quote="w3schools"]
Why XHTML?
We have reached a point where many pages on the WWW contain "bad" HTML.
The following HTML code will work fine if you view it in a browser, even if it does not follow the HTML rules:
<html>
<head>
<title>This is bad HTML</title>
<body>
<h1>Bad HTML
</body>
XML is a markup language where everything has to be marked up correctly, which results in "well-formed" documents.
XML was designed to describe data and HTML was designed to display data.
Today's market consists of different browser technologies, some browsers run internet on computers, and some browsers run internet on mobile phones and hand helds. The last- mentioned do not have the resources or power to interpret a "bad" markup language.
Therefore - by combining HTML and XML, and their strengths, we got a markup language that is useful now and in the future - XHTML.
XHTML pages can be read by all XML enabled devices AND while waiting for the rest of the world to upgrade to XML supported browsers, XHTML gives you the opportunity to write "well- formed" documents now, that work in all browsers and that are backward browser compatible !!!
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Learn more at:
http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/default.asp
But isn't it fully downwards-compatible with (valid) HTML 4.1, considering it's a reformulation from SGML to XML?
Yes. 😃
If its really valid 4.1.
Thank you guys.
in other words...it makes pages look nicer but with less code 😃
so does it work with the browser built in in the 3650 or i have to download another browser?
the inbuilt browser on 3650 handles xhtml pages fine.
Yes, it does. But it's a bit "annoying" that style sheets are somehow applied later in time than the text of the pages. If I have a page with a style sheet that applies centered text, the text first appears left justified and after a noticeable delay it gets centered :-?