Re: So which DOCTYPE should I use?

by Tamara Abbey <tamara(at)abbeyink.com>

Date:	Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:34:53 -0600
To:	Jay Smith <jay(at)JaySmith.com>, hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org
In-Reply-To:	JaySmith
	todo: View Thread, Original

(oh Fuzzy, who will get here first??)

Given a quick look of your specs, XHTML 1.0 trans since

1) It is the transition of HTML 4.01 Strict to XML

2) Trans since browsers have yet to fully support XHTML/XML

3) XHTML requires proper nesting, well-formed documents and closed tags -- 
all good habits to start practicing yesterday.

FWIW,
~Tamara

At 06:41 PM 2/13/01 -0500, Jay Smith wrote:
>Thanks for the answers to my DOCTYPE question posted earlier today.
>
>SO... WHICH DOCTYPE should I be using?
>
>a) I use CSS
>
>b) I use lots of tables to organize data, only only for a minor extent
>for formatting.
>
>c) Most of my target audience are "plain folks" with a mostly IE or NS
>or AOL browsers, with a wide range of versions.  These folks are most
>definitely NOT up to the minute with the latest software, but
>generally have IE 3.x or better, NS 4.x or better, etc.
>
>d) I do NOT use frames

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