I have never seen the differences between the two doc types spelled out like this. When I was learning CSS our instructor taught us to use transitional-- less problems she said. I guess I fell into the belief that strict was for those who knew CSS "forward and backward" That strict was unobtainable for those of us who still refer to a css handbook at times and have a sense of dread with a new IE browser release. There are times when getting a page to work on all browsers and validate can be daunting enough just in transitional...
Is this really all the difference between the two doctypes? If I print this out and place it beside the CSS handbook could I possibly obtain Strict validation? Thank you for posting this, Dory On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:36 PM, russ - maxdesign <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Pages that validate as strict are superior to transitional because > > Because the strict doctype helps us follow one of the principles of best > practice - "to remove all presentation from markup". > > To do this fully, we should aim to remove all presentational elements and > attributes from our markup. > > How does the strict doctype help this? Here are some examples... > > Using the Transitional doctype, the following presentational ELEMENTS are > allowed: > > - u > - s and strike > - center > - font > - basefont > > Using the strict doctype these are not allowed - they are invalid. > > Using the Transitional doctype, the following presentational ATTRIBUTES are > allowed: > > - background and background-color attributes for body element. > - align attribute on div, form, paragraph (p), and heading (h1...h6) > elements > - align, noshade, size, and width attributes on hr element > - align, border, vspace, and hspace attributes on img and object elements > - align attribute on legend and caption elements > - align and background-color on table element > - nowrap, bgcolor, width, height on td and th elements > - bgcolor attribute on tr element > - clear attribute on br element > > Using the strict doctype these are not allowed - they are invalid. > > With the transitional doctype inline elements and character strings are > allowed in: > > - body > - blockquote > - form > - noscript > - Noframes > > Using the strict doctype these are not allowed. They are invalid. > > Why is it important to remove presentational elements and attributes from > markup? Because presentational elements and attributes add weight to the > page and make it harder for you to manage, change the presentation of the > page at a later date. > > Thanks > Russ > > > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
