24 ways: Transitional vs. Strict Markup

24 ways: Transitional vs. Strict Markup: "Transitional vs. Strict Markup

When promoting web standards, standardistas often talk about XHTML as being more strict than HTML. In a sense it is, since it requires well-formedness and quoted attribute values. But there are two flavours of XHTML 1.0, defined by the Transitional and Strict DOCTYPEs. And HTML 4.01 also comes in those flavours."

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