Posted by Chaddy2222 on 12/05/07 06:22

dorayme wrote:
> In article
> <108d258d-37b8-45ef-b339-60b1c80dcd03@s36g2000prg.googlegroups.co
> m>,
> Chaddy2222 <spamlovermailbox-sicurity@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> > The thing I dislike about HTML dog is that the beginer tutorial does
> > not use a doctype, and it should as it does not get people in to good
> > habits by not useing one.
>
> On the second page of the beginner tutorial is:
>
> "The first line on the top that starts <!DOCTYPE... is to let the
> browser know that you know what the hell you're doing. You may
> think that you don't actually know what you're doing yet, but
> it's important to stick this in. If you don't, browsers will
> switch into "quirks mode" and act in a very peculiar way. Don't
> worry about this just yet, you can learn more about "document
> types" in the HTML Advanced Tutorial if you really want to. For
> the moment, just remember to shove this line at the top of your
> web pages and you're laughin'."
>
> And the markup example has a doctype. Perhaps better to dislike
> the fact that it uses XHTML 1.0 Strict rather than 4.01 Strict.
> but this perhaps is a lesser crime?
>
Yes well, I did not notice that.
I don't have as much of a problem with XHTML strict but I find useing
the transitional DTD a bit of a joke now a days.
--
Regards Chad. http://freewebdesignonline.org

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