One of the main causes for the many positional differences between layouts in various browsers is due to the default stylesheet each browser applies to give styling to certain elements. This usually involves setting default margins and padding to some elements to make them behave in a certain way.
David “liorean” Andersson has a great review on whats to come from HTML5 and XHTML2.
“HTML 4.01 may be a good, stable ground for developers to stand on, but it could be better. Lots of things have changed in the way the web is used and perceived in the last eight years, but particularly from a [...]
The Undersigned has writted a detailed article for creating your own theme in wordpress using your XHTML and CSS files. They explain the inner workings on how the many theme files for wordpress all work and come together.
dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter. At its heart, dompdf is (mostly) CSS2.1 compliant HTML layout and rendering engine written in PHP. It is a style-driven renderer: it will download and read external stylesheets, inline style tags, and the style attributes of individual HTML elements. It also supports most presentational HTML [...]
Moo.dom is a very lightweight (less than 3kb!) and effective script, to target html elements using javascript and css selectors.It uses prototype.js, or the light version (also included in moo.fx), and works perfectly with Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera.
For the impatients there is a test page, and dont forget to view the source.
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In no particular order 55 reasons for me to do “tableless” websites using valid XHTML for markup, CSS for layout and Flash sparingly, only as an ingredient.
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