[thelist] Standards advice

[David Bindel]

> I have noticed that many large scale commercial sites such as
> yahoo and amazon do not use more modern standards such as
> XHTML and never in fact specify doctypes.
>
> I am assuming that this is to botch the browser into a sort
> of version 4 mode which they know will work on most platforms
>
> Should I go for this route for maximum compatibility or stick
> to XHTML?

Here's a good article from A List Apart:
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/netscape/

Also, see www.MACCAWS.org (Making A Commercial Case for the Adoption of
Web Standards).

Two very good pro-standards resources.


HTH,
David Bindel