Nothing is perfect in the world though people try for perfection in each and everything that they do something or the other will be there which has to be done a little more, in the same way though many changes are taking place in web development there are also some mistakes which are to be rectified. DOCTYPE confusion is something which is completely missing, incorrect or sometimes placed in the wrong place. Modern web browsers use the specified DOCTYPE to decide which rendering mode to use this is known as DOCTYPE switching.There is a common way
As web standards advocates, many of us participate in numerous online communities such as mailing lists, forums, newsgroups and even blogs (both our own and comments on others). In these communities, we often encounter beginners who are either just starting out with HTML, or have been doing HTML for a while, but are new to the concept of developing with standards.
Invariably, such beginners face the eternal question of HTML or XHTML; and today, I intend to answer this question (as it applies to beginners) once and for all. For experienced users, the
If you've had difficulties getting your web page to display correctly in more than one browser, you're not alone. The unlikely culprit might just be in the Doctype tag that you may or may not have added to your document.
QuirksMode goes into significant depth on the issue: "When Netscape 4 and Explorer 4 implemented CSS, their support did not match the W3C standard (or, indeed, each other). Netscape 4 had horribly broken support. Explorer 4 came far closer to the standard, but didn't implement it with complete correctness either. Although Explorer
As web standards advocates, many of us participate in numerous online communities such as mailing lists, forums, newsgroups and even blogs (both our own and comments on others). In these communities, we often encounter beginners who are either just starting out with HTML, or have been doing HTML for a while, but are new to the concept of developing with standards.
Invariably, such beginners face the eternal question of HTML or XHTML; and today, I intend to answer this question (as it applies to beginners) once and for all. For experienced users, the