- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:07:18 -0600
- To: Karl Dubost <karl+w3c@la-grange.net>
- Cc: "'public-evangelist@w3.org' w3. org" <public-evangelist@w3.org>
On 21 Dec 2009, at 5:54 AM, Karl Dubost wrote: > 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. Hi Karl, I have made the changes you suggested. Thank you, _ Ian > 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/ > > -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Tel: +1 718 260 9447
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