Comments on: Choosing the Best Doctype for your Website

By: Escolhendo o DOCTYPE corretamente | Rafael Vergani

Escolhendo o DOCTYPE corretamente | Rafael Vergani — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:53:40 +0000

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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: 8 Tips to Keep Your Markup in Check

8 Tips to Keep Your Markup in Check — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:18:51 +0000

[...] but use a strict doctype. There’s no need for Transitional DOCTYPES anymore as explained in Choosing the Best Doctype for your Website. [...]

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

By: Como escolher o Doctype de forma correta | Fazer Sites

Como escolher o Doctype de forma correta | Fazer Sites — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:28:37 +0000

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Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:01:39 +0000

[...] Choosing the best Doctype for your website – The Web Squeeze – In 2004, after a W3C workshop, Apple, Mozilla and Opera were becoming increasingly concerned about the W3C’s direction with XHTML, lack of interest in HTML and apparent disregard for the needs of real-world authors. So, in response, these organisations set out to with a mission to address these concerns and the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group was born [...]

By: Varun

Varun — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:05:21 +0000

Loved it.Superbly given arguments mate.You are very convincing indeed,damn you

By: Sasa Bogdanovic

Sasa Bogdanovic — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:44:10 +0000

Closing tags voluntarily has nothing to do with coding responsibly

By: Are you a sucky website designer? Take the test! - The Web Squeeze

Are you a sucky website designer? Take the test! - The Web Squeeze — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:38:15 +0000

[...] In the first line of your (X)HTML code, you specify a doctype. It tells your visitor’s browser how to parse the page. It defines which version of (X)HTML your document is using. Doctype tells browsers how you are going to code. You don’t want browsers to have to guess whether you are using HTML or XHTML or what version of those languages you may be using. If you don’t specify, then your browser will kick into quirks mode-which basically means it will guess. And it will guess wrong. Chances are your pages won’t display consistently in different browsers. You don’t want this to happen. (Choosing The Best Doctype For Your Website) [...]

By: Jens Meiert

Jens Meiert — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:52:19 +0000

Referring to the HTML 5 document type () should be safe already, by the way. However, I’m feeling free to blatantly point to http://coderesponsibly.org/ in this context as well, albeit somehow off-topic.

By: Japh

Japh — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:58:01 +0000

Well Mike, I’m converted. Your sagacious advice will not go ignored, in fact, I’m bookmarking this article, and will send it on to any future clients who requested XHTML!

By: Choosing the Best Doctype for your Website | Adoption and Orphans Information

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:24:24 +0000

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By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:08:31 +0000

Great article!

I started about a month ago switching sites back to HTML after years of THINKING I was creating XHTML (but all along using the wrong content-type).