On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:24:47 +0100, Kieran Lal <kieran@civicspacelabs.org> wrote: [...]
Assuming folks do not want to read about doctypes and DTDs what should we recommend as defaults?
DocType: application/xhtml+xml I assume. What DTDs ?
application/xhtml+xml is a MIME type. We should recommend the use of text/html (even with XHTML).
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">
Anything else?
For HTML: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd"> One other interesting piece of information may be doctype switching. I don't know any good documents about it off the top of my head, though. -- Tim Altman