[development] Administration Survey: Theme improvements, theme help system, theme mailing list

[Andre Molnar]

Kieran Lal wrote:
> Can you give a basic explanation of doc types, with appropriate  link,  
> and where this is defined in the theme?

Document Type Declarations (aka doctypes or DTDs) tell user agents what 
version of (x)HTML your document is written in.

This is a pretty good start:
"Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE!" 
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/doctype/

Further Reading:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#h-7.2
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#docconf

andre