I think it's great that you validated your page against a DTD, but
now, that page seems as if it will only work in IE 3 (granted I  know
nothing about the MSIE 3.0 DTD). Besides the age of the browser,
wouldn't validating as HTML 3 work better? Then your page would work
pretty much everywhere.

The reason I respond to the list as well is because of the thread from
a while back (last message on Aug 22) "Shaming compaines into
improving their HTML"

While I'm not wanting to shame Arthur, I feel this could be a good
example to use. Instead of using browser-specific tags that don't
comply with a DTD, using no DTD at all, or using a browser-specific
DTD, more pages should be created to be compatible with HTML 4.01 or
XHTML DTDs .

Maybe off-topic, maybe the start of a discussion.


Chris Garaffa



On Sunday, September 2, 2001, at 09:16 PM, Arthur Gouveia wrote:


<excerpt><fontfamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>I've validated a
document of type PUBLIC "-//Microsoft//DTD Internet Explorer 3.0
HTML//EN" but W3C don't have an icon of it. I did one myself, I think
you could use. I'm sending it attached to the message</smaller></fontfamily>

 </excerpt>