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Hi every one i just have this one short i wrote. If You have some news send it in and i will do more with this ONN. i first want to get Kapala & Jinja up, Take Care, ed

doctype is a pathetic attempt to hijack the Internet complements of the w3.org!

It took me awhile to figure out how on earth could they..... (who is they? good question:>....... be hijacking sites and adding and subtracting HTML at will. i realize the go ogle ad thing if they want someone to be turned off by a site they can pull up a persons profile and find what makes them offended and then add those ads to the go ogle ad list that's a no brainier. But i could not figure out how if someone is at different locations how could they remove a link on a page of someone they did not want to use that particular site?........ Of course set up a system where all traffic first goes thur a single organization like the w3. Get all Your other paper and coin god worshipers together to fund it and You can control the Internet. below You can see the list of corps who support the w3. It is a who's who's of people of money. this is the first red flag. Let's look at a doc type

let's look at a doc type: ""!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd""

First - it is the first thing on a page even before the HTML tag......not good, it's script over rides every thing
Second - it sets up restrictions and different types so it it easy to say the coding must be wrong in a court of law when they are caught.
Third - it has there address built right into the doctype, i can not believe no one has laughed at this idea before who the hell do they think they are!
Forth - they use manipulation 101 why You must do it this way. They give You nice warmy feeling. By giving You a "Markup Validator to check the syntax" they even use this as one of the reasons to use the doctype and i quote "specifying the doctype of your document allows you to use tools such as the Markup Validator to check the syntax" big deal! and what do they say is the most important reason and i quote "But the most important thing is that with most families of browsers, a doctype declaration will make a lot of guessing unnecessary, and will thus trigger a "standard" parsing mode, where the understanding (and, as a result, the display) of the document is not only faster, it is also consistent and free of any bad surprise"......... no surprises? who wrote this any way. look at all the nice words they used to describe there reasons for use "most important" "families" "declaration" "guessing" "unnecessary" "trigger" "standard" "parsing" "mode" "understanding" "result" "display" "faster" "consistent" "free" "bad" "surprise".......This is so ridiculous it is beyond compare. The browser needs to do this work not some power hungry organisation. code does not have feelings it can easily decide what is being used.

Now let's look at there xhtml tag. Again it is the first tag with there stupid address in it! "HTML xmlns="HTTP://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"

This is what they wrote on why to use the doctype. For me it is going into history and will be posting where the php print scripts are for the doctype tags in web apps like durpal and zen-cart and wordpress. Get ready to debate w3. Randy Thomas Poole

Don't forget to add a doctype add what? There is not just one type of HTML, there are actually many: HTML 4.01 Strict, HTML 4.01 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Strict, and many more. All these types of HTML are defined in their respective W3C specifications, but they are also defined in a machine-readable language specifying the legal structure, elements and attributes of a type of HTML. Such a definition is called a "Document Type Definition", or, for short, DTD. Tools which process HTML documents, such as Web browsers, need to know which DTD an (X)HTML document is actually using: this is why each (X)HTML document needs, at the beginning, a DTD declaration, such as: ""!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"" Given its syntax, the DTD declaration is often called, for short, "Doctype". Why? Why specify a doctype? Because it defines which version of (X)HTML your document is actually using, and this is a critical piece of information needed by browsers or other tools processing the document. For example, specifying the doctype of your document allows you to use tools such as the Markup Validator to check the syntax of your (X)HTML (and hence discovers errors that may affect the way your page is rendered by various browsers). Such tools won't be able to work if they do not know what kind of document you are using. But the most important thing is that with most families of browsers, a doctype declaration will make a lot of guessing unnecessary, and will thus trigger a "standard" parsing mode, where the understanding (and, as a result, the display) of the document is not only faster, it is also consistent and free of any bad surprise that documents without doctype will create.

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ed@marketstone.com / Randy Thomas Poole

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