Benjamin always has a way of cutting through the fog and giving succent advice.
Ted


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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 3:26 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:34 PM, cat soul <[email protected]> wrote:
> Any thoughts on which we ought to be using,

To cut a _long_ story very short, if you have to ask this question, use HTML.

See also:

http://www.webdevout.net/articles/beware-of-xhtml

http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/166

http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/HTML_vs._XHTML

> and what information ought to be
> up at top of an HTML page, along with <!DOCTYPE>, etc?

Typically, character encoding information (in case the user saves the
page for offline consumption), page title, links to related resources
(e.g. stylesheets for styling, feeds for feed autodiscovery), page
description (often excerpted in search results pages). Possibly Open
Graph Protocol metadata (http://opengraphprotocol.org/).

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis


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