On 18.01.2006 01:40, Design Groups wrote: > Here's a question that was brought to my attention today... > > What, exactly, does the Doctype *do*?
Unfortunately the use of doctype is not very intuitive, and I too don't understand the *exactly* sense of it. All I know is: 1)The document declaration is primarily used, in order to validate a document. 2)Browsers never validate a document, since it is bare of any sense to do it. As long as the document is "well-formed" they will always display it. 3)The XML-parser of a browser don't need a doctype, but a name space only. 4)A HTML-parsers don't need a doctype to render a document, but they use the the doctype to switch to different modes, by convention of browser vendors and W3C. The only related article I found, is: DOCTYPE declarations for versioning information < http://slashdot.org/~Quantum%20Jim/journal/111067 > I hope, that hepls a bit. Uwe Kaiser ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
