Comments on: Standards vs Quirks Mode

By: Button Height and a Broken Box Model

Button Height and a Broken Box Model — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:27:11 +0000

[...] while new standards-compliant pages are rendered appropriately in “Standards” mode (there’s an article on Quirks vs. Standards modes here).Back to the FutureSo what the heck does this have to do with us? After all, we live in The Future. [...]

By: The Year In Review: 2008

The Year In Review: 2008 — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:52:06 +0000

[...] it will become in 2009. Thanks to my guest authors for the year: Scott Philips, Chris Coyier, and Aaron Webb. Thanks to Jeremy Harrington for designing the new CSS Newbie that launched at the beginning of this [...]

By: Aaron Webb

Aaron Webb — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:01:13 +0000

@tieTYT,

A strict DTD defines a structure free of presentational attributes such as border, align, bgcolor, etc. When using a strict DTD these attributes are presented in a CSS file. In this case it is the seperation of presentation and content.

A transitional DTD allows these elements to exists within the document itself and allows for as its name implies – a transition from loosely compliant document to a more compliant structure.

A frameset DTD is used simply for documents defining a page containing a frameset.

Thanks,
Aaron

By: Aaron Webb

Aaron Webb — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:54:34 +0000

Scott,

I usually vary between XHTML 1.0 Transitional and Strict. Usually with new projects I shoot for Strict and a lot of times it is difficult to take existing projects from Transitional without major effort. In those cases, I like to run it through the validator as strict and fix as many issues as possible even when leaving the doctype as transitional.

Aaron

By: tieTYT

tieTYT — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:31:12 +0000

Can you explain the difference between Transitional, Strict and Frameset? What do these words mean?

By: Scott Phillips

Scott Phillips — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:35:37 +0000

Good stuff, Aaron. Thanks.

Which doctype do you generally use?