- From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:32:12 +0000 (GMT)
- To: ewitness - Ben Fowler <bfowler@ewitness.co.uk>
- cc: www-validator <www-validator@w3.org>
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, ewitness - Ben Fowler wrote: > > > The only validation error that you are likely to see in > >> Dreamweaver is missing ALT attributes. So it is not really > >> that disturbing. > > > >If only that were true; by default, DW doesn't even emit a DOCTYPE > >directive, ... > > Whilst this is somewhat irritating; as Dreamweaver is a tool > for the world wide web, the lack of a DOCTYPE tag is hardly > a fatal drawback as browsers (at least in general) make no use > of such a tag. IE, Mozilla and the rest use the existence of Doctype to decide whether to go into standards or legacy quirks mode. This can affect rendering considerably. You'd want a default DOCTYPE so at least you know you're playing in a standards world. L. <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>
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