For many years this one vision impairment hindered my progress, but I remained persistent at improving.  The more I dug, the more frustrated I grew and the more I learned. The web has a plethora of half full and half empty bytes of information that leaves you scratching your head at times. In the end it pays to just get the book or take that class if you have the means. Some of us are intuitive enough to learn this stuff by reading fragmented articles and piecing the rest together on our own. Others require a bit more structure.

So many things can sidetrack you, when you are on a crusade to achieve that Ninja or Jedi status in your field. Because of this, I have remained a bit reclusive. At one point, I gave up on WP and began studying Php again. I say again, because I didn’t get it after the first two attempts. In spite of this handicap, I find developing themes for WP and even Get-Simple very inspirational. At some point I will be hacking away at Php again.  I have a strong urge to for multiple reasons; unfinished business cause me to lose sleep, mastering this language is important to me. It won’t be easy, but I have a monk – like conviction, so I expect to prevail.

It’s 2012 and the number one driving force on the web is portable devices. I am not yapping about your laptop, today is all about tablets and smartphones. Using XHTML for a standard pc or mac is fine. However these new lightweight devices might yield some unexpected results. Most importantly, HTML5 offers so much more features. From a developers point of view, my biggest issue with HTML5 in the beginning was the hierarchy of the section and article tags.  Outside of that, I could not imagine how incredibly easy this was to grasp.

I cannot speak for others, but it feels good not having to be concern about “strict” or “transitional”. I never really wasted time on finding out the point of it, but I did run into an issue where I had to update a site developed in “strict” DOCTYPE. I found it to be a bit of a pain, but doable. There are a host of other issues I have not touched on regarding my migration from XHTML to HTML5, and I will leave it at that. My reason for writing this post was not to compare the two, but to promote progression. Like Lou-Lou said in PIF “This is the wave of the future baby!” Telling a newbie to learn and stick with XHTML is just flat out wrong. However, it makes quite a bit of sense if you are trying to stifle the competition…