- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 19:48:55 -0700
- To: <gdeering@acslink.net.au>
- Cc: "WAI GL" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 06:40 AM, Geoff Deering wrote: > What do developers use a TRANSITIONAL DTD for? Mostly it is used when > tables are required for layouts. What huh? The DTD choice has no effect -- zero, nada, none -- on whether you can use tables for layouts. It's _perfectly valid_ to use tables for layout in XHTML 1.0 Strict, for example. I use Transitional myself because it's a bit more secure for what I need it to do, and because I may need to make inline changes in some of my blog posts. Quite honestly, there is little difference between <div align="right"> and <div style="text-align: right;"> -- except that the first is safer because it's more likely to work correctly. If the working group is going to make assumptions based on why people use specific DTDs, I would like to see that backed up with hard data, e.g. a survey of Web developers asking them why they've chosen to use a specific DTD, or not use one at all. --Kynn > -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com Author, CSS in 24 Hours http://cssin24hours.com Shock & Awe Blog http://shock-awe.info Inland Anti-Empire Blog http://inlandantiempire.org
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