Re: Declaring as HTML 4 strict or HTML 5?

02-13-2013

On 2/12/2013 5:52 PM, Alfred Molon wrote:
> Should one declare HTML pages as HTML 4 strict or HTML 5?
>
> In other words use this header
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
>
> or this one
> <!DOCTYPE html>
>
> Or is it irrelevant?

HTML5 describes the "obsolete permitted DOCTYPE" as "unnecessarily long".

<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/syntax.html#obsolete-permitted-doctype-string>

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Gus

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