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Posted by David Dorward on 11/04/74 11:17
The Magician wrote:
> But my problem is...I went on that validator page, looked up the different
> types of "doctype declarations", and couldn't figure out which one fit. I
> dunno html 2.0 from 3.2 or 4.01...or xtml, or sooperdooper html, etc.,
> etc., etc... LOL! So...couldn't figure out which tag to copy & paste. So
> you kinda see what type of novice I am.
I seem to recall some mention of the W3C QA group thinking about producing a
"Which markup language should I use?" document that should help people in
your position in the future.
That doesn't do you much good in the here and now though, so in brief:
Generally speaking, documents authored today should be written in HTML 4.01
Strict.
Earlier versions of HTML, along with the Transitional and Frameset variants
of HTML 4.01 contain junk that really shouldn't be used (with the sole
exception of the start attribute for <ol>, but that comes up very
infrequently).
XHTML provides no practical benefits to the majority and introduces a number
of problems (mainly down to user agent support, which is minimal).
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