On Jul 28, 2006, at 4:47 AM, Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: >>> As I am working on redisigning a website, I began to >>> wonder what difference does it make whether I use the >>> xhml1 transitional or strict doctype. >>> >> >> >> strict is just less forgiving. Transitional gives you more leeway >> to use the >> odd deprecated element if there is no other choice. >> > > Right. An advantage of Strict is that it gets you used to coding > without > those deprecated elements. Keeps you honest, so to speak. > > But the real reason to choose one or the other is whether you will > conform to its standards. If you're not ready to conform to Strict, > choose Transitional. If you can meet the higher standard of Strict, > choose it and do so.
It is worth remembering that transitional doctypes were intended to ease the pain from moving (really) old documents to a more or less valid sort of tag soup (transitioning documents). If you build completely new documents, it is much better to use a strict doctype. > Also consider whether you need XHTML at all. If you're just going > to be > serving it as HTML, you might be better off sticking with HTML 4.01 > for now. +1 :-) Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh <http://emps.l-c-n.com> ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
