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Originally Posted by Festered
Nice thread. I'm starting to get the hang of html fairly well, but CSS is really throwing me, and a lot of newer sites are using it more. I keep hearing that html is getting phased out because it doesn't work equally on various browsers. True or false?
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HTML isnt going anywhere. It is the basic framework that pretty much every website uses. Some use a combination of XSL/XML, but they are by no means the rule, and a wholesale change would be ridiculously messy. :) It would also invalidate site sthat have been around with little change for over a decade now, and the w3c (the poeple who set the rules for HTML and the general web-standards) is very big on beckwards compatibility.
So to answer your question, no, it isnt going anywhere. :D
the most complex languages and technoiogies out there for creating web sites (ASP .Net, Classic ASP, JSP, PHP, Coldfusion) all ultimately send HTML to the browser.
think of it this way: The various technologies you see are fast food restaurants. No matter what they do behind the scenes, ultimately you are getting a cheeseburger at every one of them. And HTML will be phased out around the same time cheeseburgers get phased out of fast food. Sorry if I am beating a dead horse, but I kept thinking of analogies ;)
I will definitely introduce CSS once I get the html basics in place, so keep your eyes peeled.