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LittleTalker · 05-04-2006, 02:49 PM

Well, a page can be xhtml even if its URL ends with '.html'. To know if a page is xhtml you must see the source (view/page source in the menu). If at the beginning you see a line like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> , then the page is xhtml.
(some pages disable the 'view source' option in IE, but firefox will always allow to see the source, try CTRL+U).
There are lots of xhtml pages out there (most blogs, the wikipedia, and any other thing that 'smells like web 2.0' will be xhtml, for example). Mobileread is an xhtml site so it can be viewed with the iLiad, and since HenryCat tried a mobileread page, I think all the references to html you saw actually mean xhtml.

05-04-2006, 02:49 PM	#6
LittleTalker Connoisseur Posts: 54 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2006	Well, a page can be xhtml even if its URL ends with '.html'. To know if a page is xhtml you must see the source (view/page source in the menu). If at the beginning you see a line like this: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> , then the page is xhtml. (some pages disable the 'view source' option in IE, but firefox will always allow to see the source, try CTRL+U). There are lots of xhtml pages out there (most blogs, the wikipedia, and any other thing that 'smells like web 2.0' will be xhtml, for example). Mobileread is an xhtml site so it can be viewed with the iLiad, and since HenryCat tried a mobileread page, I think all the references to html you saw actually mean xhtml. Last edited by LittleTalker; 05-04-2006 at 02:51 PM.