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Post by syrupcore »

+1 for strict. +2 for xhtml. Transitional is for the soft! ;) Might as well close all them tags. When it comes time to seriously mess with the dom or include microformats or you need to do some screen scraping, well formed XML is your friend. Seriously, don't fear the strict - it's really not much more. In fact, I don't even know what the difference is anymore. Personally, I don't really care if most sites I build validate but I can't help it - I love that green bar.

For the OPs width problem, I'm willing to bet it as something to do with the fact that you have it set @ 100% _and_ have either left/right margin, padding or borders. 100% plus 2px of border = more than 100%. :)
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Post by llbbl »

Transitional is much better. It allows you to use a number of elements + attributes not allowed in Strict.

http://24ways.org/2005/transitional-vs-strict-markup
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Post by syrupcore »

Ah yes, all of the presentation gunk. I think "easier" might depend on what you do and how you do it. It's far easier for me to update the look and feel of a site from CSS than to go through and change things like center tags and font tags.

Probably the biggest benefit of day to day web dev life of a Strict doctype is that it makes IE6 behave better. For IE6, Transitional Doctypes = "Quirks Mode." I don't know about you but I already spend too much time trying to get IE6 to not behave like an asshole. I prefer to not compound the problem by dealing with quirks mode.
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Post by llbbl »

So I think to sum up. Strict, should I use it:

Old code: HELL NO

New code: Sure if you want. Matter of preference.
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