Re: Document Types (spinoff from stylesheets threads)

>To be honest, not much. It would mean that the page would be rendered in
>quirks mode rather than standards mode in  browsers that look for it. It
>may become a significant issue in the future. It is much easier to deal
>with well formed XHTML than tag-soup HTML. Future browsers may use
>completely separate rendering engines based on DOCTYPE: a nice efficient
>one for nice XHTML tha6 correctly identifies itself, and a not so nice
>chunky error correcting one for everything else.

That is what I found out to be the problem with Netscape, I hadn't realized
that it was rendering the page differently based on the doctype (though it
*should* have occured to me). It's tempting to just leave out the DTD to
avoid the problem, but a voice in the back of my head whispers that I'd
just be being lazy to do that. :)  So, I'll keep mucking around in the
hopes of getting all this to come together in some sort of sense for
myself. I'm definitely all for standards, as I think anyone who's designed
for multiple browsers would be. :-/

~Nathan Lyle
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