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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 12 Apr 1999.
Re: FAQs: What to do?

Re: FAQs: What to do?

Martin Atkins wrote:
>...
> All of the ADA documents use...
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Strict//EN">
> 
> Is that wrong then?

Yes, Martin, that is wrong. The DOCTYPE for HTML 4.0 Strict is
"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN", not "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Strict//EN". See
http://plug.co.nz/html/tagpages/d/doctype.htm for more about DOCTYPES,
and see http://validator.w3.org/sgml-lib/catalog for the list of
DOCTYPES which the W3C validator knows how to handle.

Using the Strict DTD instead of the Transitional one will prevent people
from adding old-style (FONT COLOR and so on) formatting to their mirrors
without invalidating the pages -- it allows only stylesheet formatting.
It would also probably invalidate pages which had had script and other
stuff automatically added to them by GeoCities or whoever, because that
extra stuff would probably use FONT SIZE and so on. Whether this is what
you want, I don't know.

bye
-- 
Matthew `close, but no <CIGAR/>' Thomas
Columnist, http://www.newsroom.co.nz/
Webmaster, http://www.ucsa.canterbury.ac.nz/clubs/kakariki/
FAQ maintainer, news:alt.ascii-art

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