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That Standards Guy is the online persona of Karl Dawson, a web developer living and working in Ipswich, England.

I'm a member of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers and the Web Standards Group and team member at Accessites—an awards site to recognise accessible and usable websites.

I specialise as a front-end developer and worry about the minutae of semantic (X)HTML and CSS, accessibility, microformats, typographic rhythm and grid design. I also care about the user experience and remind myself constantly of visitor site goals when working with clients and their aims.

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Missing DOCTYPES in ASP.NET

November 30th, 2005

Oh well, despite my initial optimism that Visual Studio 2005 would indicate that Microsoft “get” web standards it would seem that the product only supports three DOCTYPES (DTD), namely legacy (i.e. the same crap that’s output now), XHTML 1.0 Transitional and XHTML 1.1.

Whilst Milan Negovan asks where HTML 4.01 Strict, HTML 4.01 Transitional and XHTML 1.0 Strict fit in, I’d like to know why they didn’t consult the W3C’s list of recommended DTDs (of which Milan’s missing DTDs are a part). Do take the time to read Milan’s post and subsequent links around the topic and add to your del.icio.us for future reference.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 30th, 2005 at 5:21 pm and is filed under ASP.NET, Markup.

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