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Following Joe's query, I will get a precise example tomorrow and post it. Rick David Megginson wrote: > On 17/06/06, Rick Marshall <rjm@z...> wrote: > >> it is a little bit offtopic, but you need to know that if you don't use >> the strict dtd, ie won't let you dynamically set the content of a div - >> which means all ajax style documents must use the struct dtd. > > > Thanks, Rick -- I wasn't aware of that. I develop in Firefox and use > XHTML strict anyway (there's really no need for transitional if you're > using CSS properly), so I never noticed a problem in my occasional > MSIE testing. > > The original blog posting that Frans showed us might have missed the > point. I use strict not because I want to keep browsers from going > into quirks mode -- as important as that is -- but to make sure that I > don't use any deprecated HTML features that might cause problems with > the next browser version. > > > All the best, > > > David > begin:vcard fn:Rick Marshall n:Marshall;Rick email;internet:rjm@z... tel;cell:+61 411 287 530 x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard
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