About deevans.net ================= Organization ------------ deevans.net and intelligentinquiry.org are my home computer network. This web site is organized by directories and some files included in the base directory. Each directory has an index, which goes into greater detail about the contents of that directory. dee.rdf is a RSS 1.0, W3 RDF compliant, News Feed which some web browsers now have the capability of viewing natively. The deevans.net news feed gives information about this website, an informal blog, and general information about the Evans family. Under IIES you will find archives from, and descriptions of, meetings of the Intelligent Inquiry Educational Society (now defunct). intelligentinquiry.com is no longer a part of this site. Document Format and Technical Notes ----------------------------------- This website uses ISO HTML, XML, and text documents. Many documents are XHTML, a document type within XML, which is more flexible, and has been a W3 recommendation for over a decade. If you click a link and it asks you to download the file, then you probably are using a web browser that does not support XHTML. I am interested in the adoption of XHTML, as I think it solves problems within HTML. Sending XHTML as text/html compounds the problems that XHTML is intended to resolve, so you will not find this done here. See for a fuller explanation. If you encounter one of these files, please use a web browser that supports XHTML to be able to view the document, or email me to request an alternative format. Though the XHTML Media Types recommedation implies that XHTML should not be sent with the text/html content-type, it notes that the XHTML "informative" appendix allowed it for backwards compatibility. The implication, of course, is that server negotation be done allowing the download of an XHTML document, by HTML user agents, to be interpreted as HTML, while still making XHTML available to XHTML user agents. The appendix documents possible techniques to use web browser error correction facilities to allow for an XHTML document to be utilized by a non-XHTML web browser. I think this is mostly a mistake, as the XHTML document will be unable to use its XML capabilities to remain compatible, which begs the question of why it was done at all. I personally recommend the use of ISO HTML for standard documents on the World Wide Web. XHTML 1.0 used HTML 4 elements to define HTML within XML, but this has not been adopted by major user agents (including the Internet Explorer web browser, or Google). Its major failing is that it is not HTML, but is XML. HTML 5, however, is intended to replace HTML 4 (as was XHTML), successfully allowing for text/html and application/xhtml+xml content types, as well as a more dynamic integration of other media types. It promises a standard that will be more likely to be adopted than XHTML. XHTML still has its uses within XML documents, but until it is adopted by Internet Explorer and major search engines, it is not suitable for generic use on the World Wide Web. With the adoption of HTML 5, XHTML 1.0 will lose relevancy, except perhaps for the importing of HTML documents into XHTML (as Transitional was designed to do—importing HTML 3.2—under HTML 4). XHTML 1.1 has features that are quite useful: modularization and ruby language referencing, as well as the typical name space capabilities of XHTML. The HTML 5 draft rightly notes this usefulness of XHTML 1.1. Please refer to the following for user agent compliance: XHTML+XML: RDF+XML: XML Media Types: text/html: International HTML standard: Copyright (c) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 by D E Evans.