Posted by Steve Pugh on 12/21/75 11:48

Chaddy2222 wrote:

> But most browsers will read the DTD, however some choose to ignore it,

No. No browser reads the DTD for HTML. IE doesn't, Firefox doesn't,
Opera doesn't, Safari doesn't, Lynx doesn't.

> depending on the browser and DTD used.

Not unless you're talking about XML documents served as XML in which
case some browsers will fetch the DTD under some circumstances. But
that's irrelevant for HTML and for XHTML served as HTML.

Don't confuse the browsers' use of the doctype as a magic code to
switch rendering modes with anything to do with actually fetching and
reading the DTD referenced by the doctype.

Steve

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