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formatting via Markdown

to format your text, add images and links - you can now use the lovely Markdown syntax. The small editor icons will do half the work for you - but if you wish to explore other options ~ see this reference from Daring Fireball (John Gruber)
doctype
  • September 2010
    Hi everyone,

    I'm Charlotte, I'm a junior web designer in London.

    I'm studying a tutorial this afternoon, and I discovered
    the doctype could be scrict, transitional, or frameset.
    I don't know what do they mean, and why do we have three choices??
    Does someone can explain to me?

    Thank you so much.
    Have a nice day.

    Charlotte
     
  • priscaprisca
     
    September 2010
    Charlotte ;)

    seems you forgot about our first lesson ... :)
    I'm not going to try and go into it again - here are a few experts who explain it all much better ;)

    DOCTYPE Explained by Eric Meyer (2001)
    http://oreilly.com/pub/a/javascript/synd/2001/08/28/doctype.html

    Jeffrey Zeldman on ALA: Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE! (2002)
    http://www.alistapart.com/articles/doctype/

    Peter Paul Koch: Quirks mode and strict mode
    http://www.quirksmode.org/css/quirksmode.html


    List of valid DOCTYPE:
    http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html

    Hope this helps :)
     

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