[thelist] DTD was...a weird question

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Thu Jan 18 12:42:39 CST 2001


> From: Elizabeth Hincks <liz.hincks at tufts.edu>
> 
> Sorry, I just have to ask...what in the world is a DTD?  And how does one decide
> which one to use?

Document Type Declaration... it tells the browser what markup 
language and version to use when parsing the pages... browsers 
like Netscape 6 and IE5 for the Mac use this to determine what 
rendering engine to use, for instance...




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