> >Eeh ... if you write your HTML code valid to the specification (it's a > >specification!) of HTML 4 you can be *sure* it'll work in *any* browser. > >Including the two big ones. > > Not necessarily, but even if it were true, strict HTML 4.0 breaks > backward compatibility with older browsers.
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