Re[2]: doctype in head?! [Re: A Gothic Sight, please critique]

by Diarmuid Ryan <dpryan(at)iol.ie>

Date:	Fri, 03 Apr 1998 00:27:27 +0100
To:	HWG <hwg-critique(at)hwg.org>
In-Reply-To:	geocities
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On 01-Apr-98, Burt the Mime (burtthemime(at)geocities.com) said the following
about Re: doctype in head?! [Re: A Gothic Sight, please critique]:

BtM> If you setup a new page in Netscape Composer you get this code.
BtM> <HTML>
BtM> <HEAD>
BtM>   <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
BtM>   <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/4.04 (Macintosh; I; PPC)
[Netscape]">
BtM> </HEAD>

BtM> I have always just substituted the DOCTYPE for the META tags, am I wrong.

The Doctype declaration is used for validation services of HTML, such as
validaor.w3.org .  This should be at the very top of the page, as it informs
validator on what HTML standard the page should be validated, e.g. HTML 2.0,
HTML 3, HTML 4 and other strains of HTML.  AFAIK this is the only practical
use for the doctype declaration.

Hope this helps.
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