Head First HTML with CSS

questions about strictness
244 Chapter 6
Okay, so it gives us
a transition point between
old style HTML and standard
HTML 4.01. But why are we
using it? Why didn’t we just
start with strict?
We certainly could have.
That would have been a perfectly valid
approach. But, while we’ve been writing pretty
decent HTML in this book, we’re just now
learning how to write it in a way that is correct
and standardized. Right? And, as you can see,
it took us a few steps to get there, what with
all the DOCTYPEs and tags and the
alt attribute.
But now that we’re there, and we’ve got
validated transitional 4.01 HTML, we’re in a
good position to start using the strict form of
HTML. Let’s give strict a try and then we can
talk a little more about transitional versus strict.