Re: Rant: Netscape 6 - How could you betray me!!!

by Charles A Upsdell <cupsdell(at)upsdell.com>

Date:	Sat, 18 Nov 2000 11:35:01 -0500
To:	hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
References:	nucleus
	todo: View Thread, Original

No.  The XML tag is OPTIONAL if the character encoding is UTF-8 or 
UTF-16.  See section 3.1.1 of the XHTML spec.

I recommend omitting the XML tag where possible because some old browsers - 
like Netscape 3 - render the tag as contents.

At 06:29 AM 11/18/00, you wrote:
>XML tag and version is required for XHTML documents.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rob Atkinson" <robatkinson(at)nucleus.com>
>
>Maybe it's just me, I dunno - it has happened before ;-)
>
>I now do all my coding in XHTML and although I do get some
>Validation errors, they are mostly errors from coding in the
>"looks" dept. Browsers that don't understand these "errors"
>ignore them and the pages do not "break" in any Browsers.
>
>If you take a look at: http://www.potentproducts.com/
>you will notice I code my DTD as:
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
>lang="en">

-
Chuck Upsdell
Email:     cupsdell(at)istar.ca or cupsdell(at)torfree.net
Website:   http://home.istar.ca/~cupsdell/

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