Head First HTML with CSS

pondering strict versus transitional
Transitional Strict
Hey there, Strict. You here to talk about how
much you love frustrating Web page writers?
Oh, you know, all those Web page writers out
there who are struggling to get their Web pages
to validate with your strict DOCTYPE. You’re
pretty tough, you know.
Tough love?
Oh, please. Not everyone wants to be strict all
the time.
Not everyone can, or wants to, transition their
entire Web site to the strict standard overnight,
you know. Sheesh, I’m playing an important
role here.
How is it future-proofing anything?
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Tonight’s talk: Transitional and Strict try to
recruit followers.
What’s that supposed to mean?
It’s tough love, man.
Yeah. Sooner or later any page of importance
really needs to move to strict. You may think
I’m tough now, but you’ll love me later.
Huh? You encourage people to stay behind
the times with all those old tags and attributes.
You’re just a crutch.
The way I see it, people get to say they’re
“standard HTML” when in reality, they’re still
relying on old habits. I say, strict is the way to
go. That’s the only way to future-proof a Web
site.
Hey man, some of your tags have been
“deprecated.” Do you know what that means? It
means they’re going away. By going strict now,
it’ll be a lot easier to update to the next version
of HTML.