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http://www.dustindiaz.com/skinny-on-doctypes/

Interesting discussion on doctypes (and HTML5).

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Two thoughts.

Two thoughts.

The intertube pipes are huge and cheap and getting larger and cheaper. Byte size is starting to count for very little. Especially something on that small of a scale - 3mb background images is still obscene, but not unheard of.

If you DO go with this method, then use a valid doctype to validate against and then change to the "Skinny" version would be the way I would recommend doing things.

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Deuce wrote:If you DO go

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If you DO go with this method, then use a valid doctype to validate against and then change to the "Skinny" version would be the way I would recommend doing things.

Yeah, I was thinking that as well although you can validate your HTML5 documents with the W3C validator now too.

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