Posted by Mark Parnell on 10/18/11 11:19

Previously in alt.html, windandwaves <winandwaves@coldmail.com> said:

> Because i thought a document could only be A or B, just the wrong
> assumption.

That depends what A and B are. XHTML vs HTML and Strict vs Transitional
are 2 completely separate issues.

> Are you saying you could have a strict and transitional
> document?

No, but an HTML document can be either Strict or Transitional. And an
XHTML document can be either Strict or Transitional[1].

> Yep, will stay with strict.

HTML, presumably. :-)

[1] OK, so only true for XHTML1.0, not 1.1. But since XHTML1.1 *must* be
served as XHTML, and IE doesn't understand XHTML, XHTML1.1 is simply not
practical on the WWW at the moment, and probably won't be for a number
of years yet.

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