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Posted by J.O. Aho on 01/31/07 08:29
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> fuli open wrote:
>
>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>>> You should add a DOCTYPE to all your pages. Use this at the very
>>> beginning of each page;
>>>
>>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
>>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
>> Which doctype is more adequate for my page, the above one or the
>> following one?
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://
>> www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
>
> Strict is for new pages. One would only use Transitional if one was ..
> well .. transitioning legacy pages and didn't have the time to remove
> ancient 'presentational' HTML code: <font ..>, <center>, stuff like
> that.
Using strict or transitional, don't allow xhtml tags.
> Without a valid doctype of any kind, you push browsers into quirks mode.
As the pages that OP has made uses xhtml too, it's getting even worse.
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//Aho
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