At 09:46 -0800 6/2/08, Elli Vizcaino wrote:
>Hello List,
>
>Not sure if this would fall under off topic. But I
>wanted to know what the reasons are for using a strict
>doc type as opposed to transitional. I use strict in
>my documents but wondered why it seems to be a bad
>idea to go with transitional as I've seen a couple of
>topics graze the issue from time to time.
In theory, in a land and time far far away, your choice of doctype
should reflect your content and whether you can control the markup of
that content and would have nothing to do with CSS, but browser
history has, ha, rendered that position all wrong. So...
On topic: how CSS renders depending on what mode a particular doctype triggers.
The css-d wiki's brief introduction
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=RenderingMode
PPK's most excellent explanation and test pages
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/quirksmode.html
Off topic: reasons for using a particular doctype other than reasons
of forcing a particluar CSS rendering mode.
That said, the above linked page is full of links that should help
you with that too.
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