I think the most common 3 HTML ones are
strict, transitional and frameset
strict is to the letter standards but since this isnt suited to earlier browsers, isnt wise, have to dot every i and cross every t, cant use link targets, body margins and deprecated tags
transitional is new with the old, with the rest of the tag set to 4.0 it conforms to the html 4.0 standards but also degrades for the older browsers
frameset is for frames
are they necessary? to validate your site you do really need them, other than that I dont think so.
I always just use transitional, with or without style sheets it works fine
I'm sure someone else can give you a more techo description
netcommr posted this at 22:00 — 9th November 2001.
I see them as being required by future browsers to render the document properly.
The opening tag of an html document is but does not contain any version info for the browser. This limits the browsers capability or will slow it down having to figure it out.
I think it is a good practice to just get in the habit of starting all pages now with a
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Busy posted this at 21:38 — 9th November 2001.
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I think the most common 3 HTML ones are
strict, transitional and frameset
strict is to the letter standards but since this isnt suited to earlier browsers, isnt wise, have to dot every i and cross every t, cant use link targets, body margins and deprecated tags
transitional is new with the old, with the rest of the tag set to 4.0 it conforms to the html 4.0 standards but also degrades for the older browsers
frameset is for frames
are they necessary? to validate your site you do really need them, other than that I dont think so.
I always just use transitional, with or without style sheets it works fine
I'm sure someone else can give you a more techo description
netcommr posted this at 22:00 — 9th November 2001.
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I see them as being required by future browsers to render the document properly.
The opening tag of an html document is but does not contain any version info for the browser. This limits the browsers capability or will slow it down having to figure it out.
I think it is a good practice to just get in the habit of starting all pages now with a
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#version-info
http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#dt-doctype
http://www.KeywordDelivery.com
A dynamic response content delivery and management system which allows any web page to display content targeting the visitors interest based on the referrer.
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