Everyday you hear people going off on some tangent about XHTML. But not as many of them actually tell you how to implement it, that is till today. Sjoerd Visscher shows us that XHTML is not something to be afraid of. In reality, if you have a good handle on learning other aspects of Web design, implementing XHTML is really not that bad at all.

Well, I slept off most of my desire to blog about XHTML 2.0, but here’s a post anyway. The thing is, I don’t think implementing elements using behaviors is really a good idea, although I feel bad saying it while the W3C is linking to my test implementation.

The problem is that behaviors are just that: a description of the behavior of an element. Add a bit of style and you have a webpage that looks and feels like one. Great! Everybody seems to fall for it. But the browser has right at this point stopped being a browser, and is just a CSS and Javascript engine. The semantics are lost.