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From: Geoff Deering
Date: Oct 6, 2017 4:50PM

That really does help Sandy...

I remember back in the day, I'd validate my pages,,, then to find out a
year or so later, they had some errors and warnings,, so the validator was
always improving.

So it's great to see someone using an old DTD and the current validator
validates it.

On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Sandy Feldman < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

>
> > > The only instances I see of no errors and just warnings are where >
> the doctype is declared in the HTML5 declaration <!DOCTYPE html>. > hey
> Geoff,
>
> You got me curious. There's a site I built a long, long time ago. The
> doctype is HTML 4.01 Transitional. I checked out a few pages and they still
> validate.
>
> http://www.asklenore.info/
>
> I hope this helps you think this through, but it probably just muddies the
> waters.
>
> --
> Sandy
>
> sandyfeldman.com
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> ca.linkedin.com/in/sandyfeldman
> inclusivemedia.ca
>
>