Re: DOCTYPE

From: Jonas Werres <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:03:45 +0100

HTML 4.01 Strict(!) is still the document type of choice in most cases.

NACK. Since HTML incontrast to XHTML allows some very strange things, XHTML is much easier to debug using a validator. Indeed, most of the stuff (except some specialties like checked="checked", <br /> ...) sane people are using in HTML is already XHTML.
Defining it als XHTML has the advantage, that constructions that are commonly mistakes but are valid will be found by the validator.
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