On Aug 1, 2012, at 9:11 AM, Georg <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 01.08.2012 14:41, Tedd Sperling wrote:
>> 
>> As for "good practice", using a tiny amount of code to accomplish something 
>> is better than using more than what's needed.
> 
> If you say so :-)
> 
> regards
>        Georg

Well... I'm just simple that way -- maybe too simple for this list. But you 
raise a good point, namely one should consider the demands of the page in 
choosing a doctype, right?

Unfortunately/fortunately there are many choices, for example:

http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html

What is a novice to do? Can the choice be simple? 

What is wrong with using?

<!DOCTYPE html>

Sure it doesn't have a *real* DTD, but the W3C validator does somehow validate 
pages that have this DOCTYPE declaration, right? So, there must be some sort of 
*standards* it validates contents against, right? Where/what is that "DTD"? I 
think that would be an interesting thing to know.

Any answers for this simple person?

Cheers,

tedd


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