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I realise that it may not seem very important in this context, but for being a site aimed towards developers, and after all the HTML5-touting that the IE-team h
by Zirro 14y ago
I realise that it may not seem very important in this context, but for being a site aimed towards developers, and after all the HTML5-touting that the IE-team has been doing, I was pretty disappointed to find that the site in question (http://www.generationapp.com http://www.generationapp.com) uses the XHTML 1.0 Transitional-doctype.
When even http://www.microsoft.com http://www.microsoft.com uses <!DOCTYPE html>, I fail to see why a developer-focused site (with visitors who actually check the source code) would not.
- untog 14y agoBecause in the real world, doctypes don't make any difference? Don't get me wrong, I do understand where you are coming from- but when there is literally no actual change aside from what the first line of the document source looks like... I have a hard time getting too agitated about it.
- toyg 14y agoBecause in the real world, doctypes don't make any difference? Really? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirks_mode#Comparison_of_document_types http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirks_mode#Comparison_of_docum...
- untog 14y agoOK, let me rephrase. "The HTML5 doctype and XHTML Transitional doctypes do not make any meaningful difference". Luckily, we are long past the days of quirks mode if we just remember to set a decent doctype.
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