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  1. #1
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    Default DOCTYPEs, Web Standards, etc...

    How many of you are trying to keep your sites standards compliant?

    Do you?

    1. For DOCTYPE, use Strict, Loose, or Transitional, or nothing?

    http://www.alistapart.com/stories/doctype/

    2. Use XHTML1.1, XHTML1.0, HTML4, don't know/don't care?

    I've settled on XHTML1.1 strict, which requires strict adherence to the rules (all lower case tags, self closing tags must have />, for example: <br/>, <img src="go.gif" />, etc).

    As someone with programming experience, the enforcement of the rules is not a problem as compilers are generally not very forgiving, depending on the programing language...

    As a follow up, have you looked at emerging standards like CSS3, HTML 5, and XHTML 2?

    Both HTML 5 and XHTML 2 have interesting new features, but are years away from finalization, and implementation by browsers.

  2. #2
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    Default Re: DOCTYPEs, Web Standards, etc...

    Quote Originally Posted by StevenWWinters View Post
    How many of you are trying to keep your sites standards compliant?

    Do you?
    Yup
    Tho I'd refer to www.w3schools.com for the doctypes.

    I usually use XHTML 1.0 Transitional, I tried with strict, but I'm not always in the mood to argue with the rules about how it should be.
    Tho I do use all that closing and lower case tags, I also use css as much as possible.

    I haven't looked much at HTML5/XHTML2, but I run into "coming in CSS3" all the time...

    As a comment, I don't like the way some browsers tend to accept invalid tags, and why do they still have the old flash tags on youtube? (embed)

  3. #3
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    Default Re: DOCTYPEs, Web Standards, etc...

    Nearly all the work that I do at the moment I use XHTML1.1 strict but I am fed up tidying up the code from GoLive no one they dropped quickly when they bought Marcromedia and went on and developed DW.
    Design is thinking made visual.

 

 

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