Posted by Andy Dingley on 01/17/66 11:48

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Chaddy2222 <rockradio2000@yahoo.com.au> scripsit:
>
> > The document type decleration (DTD) tells the web browser what type
> > the document is and what set of rules to use when displaying the
> > website.
>
> No it doesn't.

While Chaddy's answer is certainly partial (I too am too bored to
bother re-posting half of Google) in what way is it strictly "wrong" ?

> > The document type decleration (DTD) tells the web browser what type the document is

> > what set of rules to use when displaying the website.

Now these, especially the second, are a condemnation of browsers as
much as anything, but as empirical observations about how browsers
actually function, then what's wrong with them?


To the OP: Google search through c.i.w.a.h You'll learn more than you
probably wanted to know. You might even learn how to expand your
killfile as an idiot pruner (VK and the darling Andkon springs to mind)

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