XHTML 1.0 strict vs XHTML 1.1

I have designed XHTML Strict web sites so far, and I was wondering if I
could design XHTML 1.1 web sites from now on. I serve my pages as
application/xhtml+xml thanks to PHP (the script negociates whether the
client accepts this MIME type or not, else serves the page as text/html)
Do you create your pages in XHTML 1.1?
I'd like to do it, is there a problem doing it?

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On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 2044 -0200, Kerberos <me@privacy.net> wrote:

> I have designed XHTML Strict web sites so far, and I was wondering if I
> could design XHTML 1.1 web sites from now on. I serve my pages as
> application/xhtml+xml thanks to PHP (the script negociates whether the
> client accepts this MIME type or not, else serves the page as text/html)
> Do you create your pages in XHTML 1.1?
> I'd like to do it, is there a problem doing it?

There is virtually no difference between XHTML 1.0 Strict and XHTML 1.1

<http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/changes.html#a_changes1>

The only big concern, from the URI above, is that in imagemaps, the
"usemap" attribute must be a plain text label (no preceeding #-sign)
pointing to a <map> "id" attribute (not a "name" attribute).
Unfortunately, MSIE does not understand the "usemap" attribute without the
#-sign.

eg.

<img src="[URI]" alt="This is an image map" usemap="thismap" />
<map id="thismap">
...
</map>

.... is valid XHTML 1.1. MSIE, while it *does* understand the use of "id"
in the <map> element rather than "name", will only understand the
following:

<img src="[URI]" alt="This is an image map" usemap="#thismap" />
<map id="thismap">
...
</map>

.... which is *not* valid XHTML 1.1.

Other than that, if your pages are valid XHTML 1.0 Strict and work with
the application/xhtml+xml MIME type, you're already most of the way there.

Grey

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Em Sat, 15 Jan 2005 19:55:56 -0500, GreyWyvern <spam@greywyvern.com>
escreveu:

> The only big concern, from the URI above, is that in imagemaps

Thanks! Good to know, actually I (almost?) never use image maps.

I'll give it a try and post it here some more day

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