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#26 2008-09-02 6:29 pm
- Stan
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Re: Do doctypes matter?
sturner wrote:
Better written browsers are very forgiving aren't they?
The code displayed by the OP is pure crap. Badly written, and certainly not well-formed or valid.
I don't what you're getting at in your first sentence and I don't know what an OP is.
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#27 2008-09-02 9:44 pm
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Re: Do doctypes matter?
OP = Original Poster (the person who started the thread), or perhaps Original Post in that case.
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#28 2008-09-02 10:45 pm
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Re: Do doctypes matter?
Browsers are much better nowdays than when they first started appearing. They do a better job of guessing what is meant by the code, and will regress from the current web standard to the much laxer standards prior to todays. So under HTML 1.0 and whatever magic the programmers put into the browser, it might actually see most of that code as ok and render it or make an approximation on rendering it.
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#29 2008-09-03 1:32 am
Re: Do doctypes matter?
sturner wrote:
The code displayed by the OP is pure crap. Badly written, and certainly not well-formed or valid.
I've seen much worse.
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#30 2008-09-03 3:27 am
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#31 2008-09-03 11:23 pm
Re: Do doctypes matter?
I was going to provide an example, but Miles told me to knock it off.
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#32 2008-09-04 3:29 am
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