!!blue Posted November 27, 2003 Posted November 27, 2003 A friend of mine, whom I trust, let me know that he's been running into issues with XHTML. First he told me this: Be careful of XHTML! your host might not fully accept it, one of our devs used it, and the site slowed down by at least 10x!!!! i had to make them rewrite the whole site. If they arnt running IIS 5, or apache2, and the client isnt runnint IE5.5+ or NS6.5+, be prepared for you stuff to not work. then he told me this when I let him know what software TCH has: your running the old apache, so if you go to xhtml, you can expect to see a speed hit. We experience about a 10x speed hit, pages load about 10x slower than the html version. This wont effect your flash sites as much as your normal html version. can u guys give me a second opinion and also maybe some more info? I don't really understand what he's talking about. thanks, !!blue happy thanksgiving! give thanks because it could always be worse but you can always make it better! Quote
borfast Posted November 27, 2003 Posted November 27, 2003 (edited) No offense meant, and I may also be wrong but... I don't think your friend knows much about webpage construction or webservers, does he? First of all, XHTML has absolutely nothing to do with the type of server your website is hosted on. It only has to do with the browser people use to see it. If what your friend described actually happened, then I'd advise him to fire the responsible for his website... The only thing that might occur if you use XHTML is that some older browsers may have problems with it. Still, most (if not all) browsers used these days fully support XHTML, so this shouldn't be a problem at all. So, to put it in a simple way: there's no problem whatsoever in using XHTML to make your website and if you use it, the webserver has got nothing to do with possible speed (or other type of) issues that may arrise on a browser that's 10 years old Actually, you should use XHTML. Here's why. Hope this helps Edited November 27, 2003 by TCH-Raul Quote
DarqFlare Posted November 28, 2003 Posted November 28, 2003 Yeah, thanks... I've been trying to get myself into XHTML compatibility. Quote
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