Re: doctype header

  Hi Pat,

  although you specify a character encoding in the xml-declaration right
  at the beginning you should better use a meta-tag for conveying the
  character encoding information:

  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

  Some webservers are not configured to understand the xml-declaration and
  browsers tend to switch into quirks mode when being confronted with it.
  Have a look at
  http://www.webstandards.org/learn/reference/prolog_problems.html for
  more information about this problem.

  Just forget about the xml-declaration and start your documents right
  away with the Doctype Declaration.

  I am also not quite sure whether the language attribute lang="en" is
  allowed in XHTML, though it might be in the transitional flavour.

  How Doctype Declarations generally influence rendering of pages in
  different browsers you might learn from the following pages.

  Opera: http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/doctype/
  Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/doctypes.html
  Internet Explorer:
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnie60/html/cssenhancements.asp?frame=true#cssenhancements_topic2

  Yours,

  jens

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