Digg - Google Code Blog: Introducing Google Doctype

We are happy to announce the formation of an encyclopedia for web developers, by web developers: Google Doctype.

We could spend hours explaining why our sites broke, but wouldn’t it be better if they didn’t break in the first place?

It's been like this for a while; for example if you change the page doctype between HTML4 and XHTML1.0 you will see box model and border changes.

I don't quite see what the doctype bit has to do in there. A doctype defines the grammar used in the markup, it's not really stylesheet specific.

... declarations (if you're really worried about whitespace: minify your code) in one line and clearing floats (it all depends on the situation) * I don't quite see what the doctype ...

flashcat7777, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2 Describe your doctype so the browser can relate Make sure you do it great or it won't validate That should be in the scripture - for realz.

lukasmach, on 11/28/2007, -0/+6 They actually intended for this mode to be on by default (that is to say, when the document begins with a proper DOCTYPE), but... surprise surprise ...

also, check out the source code. no doctype, still tabular, font tags, very little (if any) CSS, fails validation. those rules are laid down for a reason and it's google's ...

Doctype, on 02/21/2008, -17/+5 Digg me down, but I hate my ***** zune. MillionsLivio, on 02/21/2008, -1/+11 You do not own a Zune. wolfreak, on 04/18/2008, -0/+0 probably owns a cd ...

For me, that tool is XHTML -- because I like following the strict DOCTYPE, I like being able to identify problems with a validator, and I like knowing the various browsers are ...

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