Posted by David Dorward on 09/27/23 11:48

SEOSpecialist wrote:

> As the author is a new web designer, I hope you guys are going to be
> steering him down the XHTML strict / transitional route, and not older
> HTML 4.0

4.01 is recommended more often.

As has been mentioned many times in the past (so use Google Groups to read
the archives if you want the details), XHTML as text/html falls somewhere
between "pointless" and "harmful", while XHTML as application/xhtml+xml to
a default install of Microsoft Internet Explorer results in a prompt to
download the file.


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