Accessing data on the Internet using current technology is slow. Pages are slow to render because they are being built by server processes. The processes building these pages are slowing down your server because your server is generating HTML rather than transmitting files. Since, on the client, the data in a page is indistinguishable from the page that contains it, additional requests are made to the server to manipulate the data.
Data binding is a new feature of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 4.0 (IE 4.0) that enables authors to create Web pages that
HTML —which is short for HyperText Markup Language— is the official language of the World Wide Web and was first conceived in 1990. HTML is a product of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) which is a complex, technical specification describing markup languages, especially those used in electronic document exchange, document management, and document publishing. HTML was originally created to allow those who were not specialized in SGML to publish and exchange scientific and other technical documents. HTML especially facilitated this exchange
I’ve finally enabled a subset of HTML in my comments. In doing so, I had several requirements that needed to be fulfilled:
1. Entered markup must be valid to XHTML strict, to stop comments form breaking validation and keep things nice and tidy.
2. No presentational markup! I want to maintain control over how things look via my stylesheets—comments posted should only be able to use structural HTML elements.
3. Attributes should be restricted to those that add semantic meaning. Javascript event attributes and CSS related attributes should not be
The XHTML 2 specification isn't finished, but it already has many advantages over XHTML 1, including a greater structural richness that will make it more viable than its predecessor as an editorial format to serve as the central schema for a single-source publishing system. Without waiting for browser support of the new user interface features in XHTML 2, people who do large- or small-scale publishing can start to use these new features now.
About a year ago, an industry standards group asked me to do a presentation on how XHTML 2 might be useful to