- From: Geoff Narvronsen <geoffryn@nfocus.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 21:34:13 -0600
- To: www-html@w3.org
>Once upon a time Harold A. Driscoll shaped the electrons to say... >>Check out the discussion of the <!DOCTYPE...> statement in the RFC 1866 HTML >>2.0 Specifications. You'll see that it is part of every properly compliant >>HTML document. (True, you can often get your pages to work without one. But, >And I think this is silly. *I* understand what it does, but I do networking >for a living, I'm a professsional geek. Can anyone tell me that John Q. >Public is going to grasp doctypes and seriously start using them? *And* >keep a straight face? >If you use an editor that sticks it on for you, fine. But if you write >your HTML by hand? well, i don't use doctypes, and rarely do i see personal pages that do; but if john q public knows enough to write a page by hand, then he should be expected to know how to use doctypes (if they become standard) --- Chris (no, really Geoff Narvronsen) geoffryn@nfocus.com #pub: Angus_ http://nfocus.com/geoffryn/geoffryn.htm http://www.tripod.com/~GeoffryN/page1.html
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