Re: ID/Class Names beginning with numbers

Philip Taylor <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Nov 2013 18:58:26 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.html.general
Organization	The Chainhurst Consortium
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> People have just been misled into thinking that old DOCTYPE strings
> specified the "HTML version being used".

In what way have they been misled, Jukka ?  When I insert (e.g.,)

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

at the top of a web page expressed in HTML, I am making a definite
statement that that is (a) the dialect I have elected to use, and
(b) that is the DTD against which the document should be checked
in the event that someone alleges it contains errors.  I do not
accept that I have been "misled" about its significance; what is
the basis for your assertion ?

Philip Taylor