- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:42:11 +0100
- To: Deon Meyer <dmeyer@centricity.co.za>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 01:26:44PM +0200, Deon Meyer wrote: > Should I validate my offline document or should I add doctype and encoding > type? Both. > How do I know If my document won't have problems with other browsers. You don't; but valid code makes for a good target to aim for ... it doesn't move. > I'm not sure wich type of html or xml I'm using and thats why I can't add > doctype and encoding type. Which probably means you are writing tag soup and depending on error handling in browsers. Pick a version of HTML (or XHTML if you can see a benefit) and code to that standard. HTML 4.01 Strict is usually the best choice for new documents. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk
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