My personal feeling is that you should be using the HTML 4.01 doctype. Your not going to achive anything by using an XHTML doctype and it's technically invalid. Remember *every User Agent will (and should) treat your code as HTML*. If you put a skirt on a man it won't make him a woman. Weather or not a page is HTML/XTHML is determined entirely by the mime-type.
Also there's nothing wrong with using HTML. I think the standards people have gotten a bit confussed on this one. HTML is a W3C recomendation - it's been around for a while and will still be around for a long time - there's not reason to worry about future proof with HTML. The other thing is that I don't think anybody besides the odd bot ever looks at those meta tags. That information belongs in your http headers. Alan Trick On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 10:46 -0400, The Snider's Web wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I am going to delurk to ask a question :) > > I have been using html 4.01 transitional on my sites and have slowly > branched out to xhtml. However, I remember that there has been some > discussion on other lists about the 'dangers' of using xhtml. Here is what > I have seen used, what would be the pluses and minuses of using this combo? > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> > > I usually use this charset: > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> > > Any links or advice would be much appreciated. > > Cheers > Lisa > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
