On 2010-03-31, at 9:27 PM, Chris Blake wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So I have made it 'strict' HTML, but it is now giving me some rubbish
> about character encoding. OK I have not added it because when i do it
> seems that it can't be validated.
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd
> ">
> <html>
> <head>
>
> <title>Worcester Community Housing | Rewards</title>
>
> I left the gap because that is where I have tried to put this line:
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
>
> What gives, I can't even pass 100% before writing anything!
>
> Thanks, CB
>
>
>
> On 01/04/2010, at 11:58 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Chris Blake wrote:
>>
>>> HI,
>>>
>>> Although it's not a CSS question it is strongly related to validation
>>> which is something we all care about at css-discuss so I am sticking
>>> my neck out a bit but hope to get an OK response.
>>>
>>> I have validated a very simple layout and although it validates I am
>>> getting a few warnings:
>>> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwch.redrunner.co.uk%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.767
>>>
>>> Most seem to be to do with the doctype which is something I know
>>> little about. Basically I want to chose the easiest one to use (easy
>>> in the sense of validation). The results gave me a link to a page of
>>> different doctypes and what I think is I should be choosing either
>>> HTML 4.0.1, or xhtml 1.0, Transitional. Am I right? What's the
>>> difference?
>>
>> I recommend 4.01 strict. If it's a new page, you shouldn't use
>> transitional. That's for the transition of an old page to valid
>> markup.
>>
>> Here is the list of valid doctypes:
>> <http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html>
>>
>>> The site I am going to be using is going to be strictly HTML, CSS and
>>> images. I may, depending on results need to use a PNG fix.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com>
>> Author:
>> Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)
>> Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
>>
Try using XHTML, which is cleaner markup, with this doctype:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
Norman
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