sphyenx

what ones easiest to start with. I wanna learn python, but before that i wanna learn html. So can i possible start with x, or should i begin with HTML?

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thechristelegacy

xHTML and HTML are essentially the same. xHTML is a lot stricter. All tags have to have an end and if they don't like
(line break) you need to add one to the tag itself
. If you want to get the basics down learn HTML first, and then move uip to xHTML since it envolves knolegde of CSS also. Hope that helps.

Berto

I would learn XHTML as eventually they are going to try to phase out HTML.

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Yeah, I agree. To make sure you're web sites are fully standards compliant you'll also want to look at Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS. After you have made your site you can check the levels of standards compliance by using the tools at W3C. They are the people who put together the standards for HTML, XHTML and CSS.

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sarumont

It is a good idea to learn xHTML now as opposed to getting fluent in HTML then switching. I just validated all of my website to xHTML 1.0 Strict. It's much easier, IMHO, to learn it the new way first...that way you don't have to trouble yourself with conversion. B)

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scorpiosage

HTML is much easier to learn to begin with, it's also less strict, so you can get the basics of what coding is about, without getting frustraited by getting error strings or blank pages.
XHTML, is of course much stricter and one missing / could end you up with a blank page.

I would then get into a different scripting language, like Javascript or PHP as this will give you the basics of programming and how languages break down, and you can easily pick up some of the XHTML stuff during this same time period.

As for HTML being phased out, not any time soon. When web programming first started out there was one language, Javascript. And when HTML came out, eveyone said that Javascript would become obsolete. To tell the truth, there isn't much you can do on a web page with HTML besides make it look pretty, and Javascript is till around and used today, to make your pages more dynamic. Of course, Javascript isn't so good if you are parsing forms and writting to databases, for that, you use PHP, ASP, or CGI

Hope this helps
Mike

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