[thelist] <!DOCTYPE >

Wed Jun 18 07:11:41 CDT 2003

hi gurus,

i am modifying a spec for a website, that is being developed by external
developers.

currently in the technical overview it says that "html code is produced
following W3C's guidelines"

i wanted to make this a bit more specific, something along the lines of....

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The html code is produced following W3C's HTML standard 4.01, with each page
having the line

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">

at the top.

This will allow validation using http://validator.w3.org

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what are the lists thoughts on this?

is html 4.01 the standard i should be using? or will using 4.01 limit the
number of browsers that users can use? should i be using a earlier standard?
HTML 3.2 perhaps?

is this a good thing that i am trying to implement?

cheers,

david.