Evangelista Team, in the QA Tips: [Don't forget to add a doctype][1], there are are some factual errors that would be good to fix. Here some suggestions for modifying the text: Tools which process HTML documents, such as Web browsers, need to know which DTD an (X)HTML document is actually using: this is why each (X)HTML document needs, at the beginning, a DTD declaration, such as: s/Tools/Some tools/ s/, such as Web browsers,/ s/needs/might need/ Why specify a doctype? Because it defines which version of (X)HTML your document is actually using, and this is a critical piece of information needed by browsers or other tools processing the document. s/browsers or other/some/ (and hence discovers errors that may affect the way your page is rendered by various browsers). s/(and hence discovers errors that may affect the way your page is rendered by various browsers)// But the most important thing is that with most families of browsers, a doctype declaration will make a lot of guessing unnecessary, and will thus trigger a "standard" parsing mode, where the understanding (and, as a result, the display) of the document is not only faster, it is also consistent and free of any bad surprise that documents without doctype will create. s/parsing mode,/rendering mode./ remove everying after mode. [1]: http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/Doctype -- Karl Dubost Montréal, QC, Canada http://www.la-grange.net/karl/Received on Monday, 21 December 2009 11:54:30 GMT
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