Re: Doctype detection

I agree with most of what Christian Smith had to say, but,

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Christian Smith wrote:

> Not at all. If there is no DOCTYPE the browser is not obliged to do any
> such thing since there is not any support for CSS in HTML 2.0.

Suppose an HTML 2.0 document cotains a <LINK> to an external valid style
sheet. Do you think a HTML 4.0 CSS complient browser is required to use
that style sheet?  I'm not sure what the answer is.

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Russell O'Connor                           roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
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life is often undervalued.'' -- Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

Received on Thursday, 27 July 2000 10:55:08 UTC