Posted by David Dorward on 10/05/56 11:17

The Magician wrote:

> Not trying to sound insulting...but...that all sounded like "blah, blah,
> blah, blah, blah..." to me.

It was entirely jargon free, except for the names of the different versions
of HTML ... which you need to look up the appropriate material on the page
you said gave you a lot of choices but no help in making them.

http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html

> Shouldn't ALL browsers understand and recognize older types of html
> without all sorts of fancy tags, etc.?

Older versions of HTML generally don't have features that you will find very
useful, or have long winded and hard to maintain methods of achieving
various effects. In most cases its both.

> Even without the "Doctype Declaration", etc., etc., etc,...?

The Doctype Declaration states which standard you are following. Following a
standard is the most basic level of quality assurance. Quality assurance is
good, it saves you from problems both now and further down the road.

> They just won't have that kinda net savvy...yanno...?

You don't need net savvy to use a browser other then Internet Explorer
(although John Smith is more likely to use such a browser if he has, or has
a friend or family member with same).

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