Re: html cmd+shift+f and doc-types

From: Lachlan Deck (lachlan.dec..mail.com)
Date: Thu Dec 04 2008 - 18:03:48 EST

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    On 05/12/2008, at 9:01 AM, Q wrote:

    > On 05/12/2008, at 7:09 AM, Lachlan Deck <lachlan.dec..mail.com>
    > wrote:
    >
    >> Hi there,
    >>
    >> is there any way to inform wolips about the expected doctype for
    >> formatting?
    >
    > Possibly this could be added, but you can't currently. Is this one
    > of those tags that should never be self closing and is not permitted
    > in XHTML markup?

    I believe that's correct. I'm not certain about 'should never be self
    closing' but I remember our former designer mentioning this. So older
    browsers may not deal with it for example.

    >> e.g.,
    >> <colgroup>
    >> <col>
    >> <col width="80">
    >> <col width="80">
    >> </colgroup>
    >>
    >> is formatted as:
    >> <colgroup>
    >> <col />
    >> <col width="80" />
    >> <col width="80" />
    >> </colgroup>
    >>
    >> However, the former is correct for html 4.01. Obviously the
    >> doctype's in the pagewrapper...
    >> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd
    >> ">

    with regards, 

    --

    Lachlan Deck

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