Re: cgi.pm -import strict html4 address into html4 strict dtd header

As I need to put this up onto a live server what I need to know is whether the address part of the dtd is important or not.

Whether it's important or not depends on who's parsing the result. I've never heard of a major browser that actually uses the DTD line (that is, render documents differently depending on the DTD settings).

But the question of the importantness of the DTD line isn't much of a Perl question.

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Re^2: cgi.pm -import strict html4 address into html4 strict dtd header by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Nov 20, 2011 at 02:02 UTC
Unless I misunderstood, I believe that you are incorrect with this statement: I've never heard of a major browser that actually uses the DTD line (that is, render documents differently depending on the DTD settings). I am certain I have had to set the DTD to a specific value to get IE to operate properly (at least for my definition of properly :-) ). At least Internet Explorer 6 changed its box model (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250395%28v=vs.85%29.aspx) based on the doctype. There were also other things that changed. IE 9 changes HTML5 rendering based on the doctype (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288325%28v=vs.85%29.aspx). See also Quirks mode. --MidLifeXis	[reply]

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Re^2: cgi.pm -import strict html4 address into html4 strict dtd header
by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Nov 20, 2011 at 02:02 UTC

Unless I misunderstood, I believe that you are incorrect with this statement:

I've never heard of a major browser that actually uses the DTD line (that is, render documents differently depending on the DTD settings).

At least Internet Explorer 6 changed its box model (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250395%28v=vs.85%29.aspx) based on the doctype. There were also other things that changed.
IE 9 changes HTML5 rendering based on the doctype (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288325%28v=vs.85%29.aspx).
See also Quirks mode.

--MidLifeXis

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