Hi, this is my first post on this (or indeed any Mozilla) newsgroup, but I
am working the design of a new website, so have been reading up a lot on
this sort of thing. Maybe I can be of some help.
Matthew P. Barnson wrote in message
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>I'll do some more reading tonight on HTML4 with "strict mode" -- I'm afraid
I
>don't know enough about it to discuss it intelligently yet. As soon as I
am,
>I'll pop back in with a revised opinion based upon my reading.
HTML 4.01 Strict DTD is for HTML which is litrally Strict HTML 4.01, HTML
which conforms precisely to the recomendation. This means that it allows
none of the depreciated tags and attributes, such as layout tags like font,
and tag attributes such as color= (why oh why no 'u') and align=, as these
should all be replaced by CSS. Unfortunately older browsers really don't do
CSS well, so HTML Transitional exists so that these tags can be supported.
If you want your page to appear anything other than black on grey to NS 2 or
3, you will need HTML transitional. (And there can be nothing wrong with
it, since the w3c use it on thier front page).
However HTML 4.01 is no longer the current html recomendation, XHTML 1.0 is.
XHTML is basically the same as HTML, with the same strict, transitional, and
Frameset modes. Basically it is HTML 4 tweaked to be XML, all tags are
lower case, and all of them must be closed, all attributes must be quoted.
It's not much extra work, but I'm sure it must be worth some Karma or
something, and you would then have a fully buzzword compliant website.
I must admit to liking the idea of using Docbook for the documentation pages
and converting them to HTML, I use LaTeX for all my writing, and having well
structured documents makes them much more useful.
>I like the old Mozilla.org strategy, when it comes to documentation:
> "Write Some"
Good Idea, where do I start.
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