Comments on: Choosing the Best Doctype for your Website

By: MikeHopley

MikeHopley — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:49:14 +0000

Although you recommend using HTML 4.1 Strict;When I viewed the Page Source, it said XHTML 1.0 Strict. Can you please explain this to me.

I only wrote the article. This isn’t my website.

Nevertheless, XHTML 1.0 Strict is also a fine choice of doctype. I prefer HTML 4.01, for the reasons given in my article, but that doesn’t mean that XHTML is “wrong”.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:39:14 +0000

Thank you for an enlightening article.I’m just starting to build my first website.
Although you recommend using HTML 4.1 Strict;When I viewed the Page Source, it said XHTML 1.0 Strict. Can you please explain this to me.

By: rizq

rizq — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:31:02 +0000

Great Job !

By: Selvam

Selvam — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:23:10 +0000

very informative….must read

By: DJ

DJ — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:40:01 +0000

Nice article, well written. Objective, to the points that matters.

By: ernest

ernest — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:41:27 +0000

I appreciate the thought you put into this, so I wanted to share my own experience with xhmtl transitional so far. I want to move to strict for better parsing, but some of my customers are on slow 56kbps modems in the boondogs. It takes a while for the css to arrive, during which the layout jumps all over the place unless it contains height and width directives. By including height and width the layout is in place, so the page is readable while the images and menu tables are laying out. Ive read that’s actually the reason why trnasitional is still around, and Im not really a big expert, but I have seen that mentioned on w3c.org even I think.

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:02:13 +0000

Hello,

Good article!

Why did this site choose XHTML 1.0 Strict instead of HTML 4.01 Strict ?

Regards,
Kenneth