On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Tedd Sperling <t...@sperling.com> wrote: > Unfortunately/fortunately there are many choices, for example: > > http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html > > What is a novice to do? Can the choice be simple? > > What is wrong with using? > > <!DOCTYPE html>
Nothing. Use that. And, actually the uppercase DOCTYPE is important as I've run into problems with the lowercase version in some browsers. DTDs are antiquated schema validation technique used primarily for XML. I don't think any browser actually uses DTDs internally on documents, as very few successfully validate, and browsers are written to do the best they can with invalid documents. Their only practical utility is with validation tools that a web author might want to use, to make sure they don't have missing tags, etc. Even then, more often than not these kinds of errors are easy to see when iterating over a design, so even then it's not really necessary or particularly useful. This is why HTML5 eschews DTDs. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
