http://pebble.windgazer.nl:80/categories/htmlfreezesover/ A blog with all things concerning Martin 'Windgazer' Reurings en Martin Reurings Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:58:00 GMT Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net) http://backend.userland.com/rss http://pebble.windgazer.nl:80/2006/08/31/its_raining_doctypes_and_validations.html <h3>What's a doctype?</h3> <p><quote>A valid HTML document declares what version of HTML is used in the document. The document type declaration names the document type definition (DTD) in use for the document</quote> as quoted from the w3c documentation.</p> <p>So, as per definition, the doctype declares the version of html that you've used in your document. Why, ain't that nice?</p> <h3>Why should I care?</h3> <p>Back-end developers won't care much, except for those few occasions were they might be inclined to stumble through the pages using an xml-parser. Front-end developers however should care verry much...</p><p><a href="http://pebble.windgazer.nl:80/2006/08/31/its_raining_doctypes_and_validations.html">Read more...</a></p> Until html freezes over http://pebble.windgazer.nl:80/2006/08/31/its_raining_doctypes_and_validations.html#comments http://pebble.windgazer.nl:80/2006/08/31/its_raining_doctypes_and_validations.html Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:26:32 GMT