In my neverending quest to understand how all this internet stuff developed, I came across this article:
http://www.miswebdesign.com/resources/articles/web-design-xhtml-1-1.html
It's quite a comprehensive web-site that starts off explaining the differences between html and xhtml. If I understood correctly, the World Wide Web Consortium( W3C) introduced xhtml in 1999 to set-up standards for web design that would translate into the expanding community of web browsers (mobile phones, tv's, pda's, car...along with the good ol' computer!). Xhtml is capable of being extended far beyond the programming capabilities of html...and it's capable of being validated. Validation is important because the ultimate goal is to have computers not only display web pages, but UNDERSTAND the pages. So, in the future a computer would understand that a page was about, say, 'wombats' and find you other articles throughout the world wide web.Quite interesting!
~Kate
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