Posted by j1mb0jay on 02/21/07 15:25

Andy Dingley wrote:
> On 20 Feb, 18:04, "j1mb0jay" <j...@aber.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> What decleration should i use rather than text/html to allow
>
> You should use a content-type of text/html, because anything else
> breaks IE. The only viable alternative is to serve it dynamically,
> according to what each browser claims to accept. Now you're having to
> look at dynamic features for what should only need to be a simple
> static site.
>
> The doctype you use is probably best as HTML 4.01 Strict, but you
> could use XHTML 1.0 Strict reasonably and validly (if not usefully).
> What you can't do is to serve XHTML 1.1 by the same simple route.
>
> If your course requires XHTML 1.1, then change course. They're
> clueless and their teaching is untrustworthy.

I paid a lot of money for this course. I am not going to chance. If they
think 1.1 is a good way to start learning HTML with closing every tag and
using CSS, then i have to aggree.
Not my fault browers dont follow rules.
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Regards JJ (UWA)

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