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.

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Originally Posted by StevenWWinters

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

Do you?

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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)

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.