> From: Bill Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:18:55 -0500 > To: SuzT808 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <css-d@lists.css-discuss.org>, David Laakso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [css-d] Site Check for IE layout issues > > I'm not a list pro and this may offer little in terms of resolution, but... > > As I understand it, Internet Explorer doesn't support XHTML, so even if > you specify XHTML in the doctype and even if you made server-side > adjustments to _ensure_ that you were sending XHTML to the browser, IE > simply won't render it as XHTML, using instead it's own HTML interpretation. > > I've yet to see the real benefit to using XHTML over well-formed HTML > and tend to use this doctype for everything as a consequence: > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";> > > It seems to deliver more consistent and predictable results cross-browser. > > Hope it helps. > --Bill
That's not my understanding at all! I used the following for a number of years: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> and recently switched to: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd";> Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirks_mode http://www.alistapart.com/stories/doctype/ Could someone else please verify? --- Alyda ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
