Mike Pepper wrote:
Agreed. I now just do XHTML 1.1. There is no 'strict'; just markup.
I don't see any reason to use anything less (except, maybe when dealing
with legacy code).
There are countless pros and cons (like the IE xml prelude) but it's helped
me get a better understanding of the
If you use ! DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd;
html
*** XHTML 1.1 ***
And remember close your code br br/ or br/ then you should not have
any problem. XHTML strict see more http://www.w3c.org and all code you make
should be in
man. Great editor.)
Mike Pepper
Accessible Web Developer
www.seowebsitepromotion.com
-Original Message-
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Behalf Of Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen
Sent: 15 May 2004 12:35
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [WSG] XHTML/HTML
The voices are telling
Hi Tina,
If you use strict then the code and syntax is far more stringent in order
to validate because many tags/elements have been deprecated.
Transitional allows for more flexibility, and less stringent adherence to
standard/compliant markup.
Respectfully yours,
Mario S. Cisneros
I learned
Tina,
So does that mean if I put XHTML 1.0 Transitional that any code that
is of either HTML 4.0 or XHTML 1.0 will be accepted by validators?
forgive me if some of this is a little introductory.
A document type or DTD defines the syntax for an application of SGML
(in the case of HTML, which
: Re: [WSG] XHTML/HTML
Hi Tina,
If you use strict then the code and syntax is far more stringent in order
to validate because many tags/elements have been deprecated.
Transitional allows for more flexibility, and less stringent adherence to
standard/compliant markup.
Respectfully yours,
Mario S
Hi Tina,
I would suggest using HTML 4.01 Transitional over HTML 4.0 but I can't
remember why now. I think (maybe) it is more consistently displayed across
browsers. I know we had a reason to make sure we changed all our stuff years
ago but it was probably to do with NN 4 at that stage.
There is
As long as its valid and well-formed markup then the validator will
acknowledge your site as compliant.
However, if not, then it will provide you a list of errors when using
inproper markup with either HTML or XHTML depending on your DOCTYPE.
I'm sure not sure what version of HTML the validator
