XHTML WTF!!!

As a required course I had to take this dumb Internet Programming class, where it seemed like we learned HTML and how the internet works. Once we got into actual building of websites, instead of learning HTML, the teacher starts teaching us XHTML.

I hate this shit. You can't use certain tags like <center>, or certain attrabutes like the border around pictures. I put in a image as a link and I can't remove the border unless I use CSS, which I'm not allowed to use yet.

Who the fuck really uses XHTML anyway? I rarely see it used, and it was first created in 2000. It's like no one gives a fuck except hardcore internet nerds who fap to slashdot and fark.

Wah wah wah

The web was a lot more interesting when all we had were header tags, bold and italics, anchors and links, and lists -- HTML 1.0, basically. Some of the best and most useful content is still written this way (think FAQs/HOWTOs, cool academic articles or unusual and original viewpoints).

What kind of response do you expect from this? Not only are you going to look like an idiot to those who are proficient in XHTML, but you're insulting them too.
Perhaps the fact that you don't understand it doesn't make it entirely bad.

>>1
XHTML specifies document structure and content, CSS specifies layout. If you're not allowed to use CSS then obviously you don't have to make a layout yet, so why do you care about centering or borders? olol troll troll

Lots of sites use it BTW, but people don't really notice because they don't view source on every site they visit.

>>1
hahaha oh wow

>>1
That's XHTML STRICT you are speaking of. Don't like it? Use XHTML Transitional. Works fine with borders and stuff like that.

>>1
Actually, you've bumped onto one of XHTML+CSS's limitations: there's no way to emulate CENTER. CSS2 fails with missing CENTER functionality, missing inline-block display mode, sucking at vertical centering, and not being able to specify an absolute position inside a block.

XHTML+CSS would be a good idea, but I can't fail to notice this web sight: http://www.google.com E ver heard of it? Ever saw the sauce HTML? And it provides an amusing feature: it just works. On any browser. Including text browsers. And it's the fastest web sight I can think of. Partly because there's none of those semantic crap, and the HTML output is optimized. zOMG HERESY! NOT USING STRONG FOR FUCKING BOLD!

>>8
There's just a form there, nothing else. I'd like to see them create a 3 column layout with flexing columns.

>>9
Ever tried GMail? They can do whatever they need. And they don't respect semantics ZOMG WTF

>>8

fail for SITE

>>10
GMail doesn't work very well everywhere though.