I just got and installed my copy of GoLive 6.0. Very nice, very speedy, and very feature rich compared to earlier versions. Adobe has made a very leniant program this time around.

I noticed they now have full support for XHTML. I created a page in it, tried viewing it in IE, it bumped back to GoLive and would not view in IE.

Besides that little bit of trivia, which I am sure I will figure out myself, what is XHTML good for? I noticed no real difference in the coding or display in GoLive.

It’s sort of a “next-generation” type thing.  It’s a combination of xml and html.  Supposedly it should allow you to use xml like style sheets in an html layout.  Instead of just being display tags though, you will be able to use the xhtml tags for layout as well as display properties.

I don’t think It’s all that… yet.  But it’s got potential if they could just standardize it.

XHTML is a W3C standard, thank you.

For more background on the benefits of using it, try this page .

If IE couldn’t read your XHTML page, it was probably coded wrong. XHTML is far less forgiving than HTML, and one unbalanced tag can throw the whole thing off. That said, it’s exactly the same as HTML, except all tags must be properly nested, balanced (eg
), and must be lower case. And I’m pretty sure a DTD is required (though it’s a good idea to include on in an HTML page, too).

There’s no way in hell I would rely on Go Live to code it, though. WYSIWYG programs are way behind the standards-compliance curve. You’ll need to know the code in order to use XHTML properly.

But the W3C’s Validator is a big help.

Thanks Gina… I guess I should clarify.  By “standardize”, I mean every new browser uses the same version, unlike the “standard” for cascading style sheets.

Thanks for the links too.