10-31-2009, 07:58 PM
(10-31-2009, 05:36 PM)Omniscient Wrote: The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) are the people that set the standards for markup language and browser compatibility.
It's not required to have a doctype but it's certainly encouraged. Browsers normally render just fine without it. However what happens is that if you have new markup like xhtml strict and you don't define it on your site with a doctype then you run the risk of the browser misinterpreting the rendering of the page.
I always encourage everyone to validate their website.
http://validator.w3.org/
Right now W3C is working on creating the newest standards (html 2.0).
Epic.
