isitreal - 11:33 pm on Feb 8, 2004 (gmt 0)

That's not the only problem with trying to code according to the strict doctype standards, the same problems apply to div elements, centering a webpage for example in the screen is not possible without using <div align="center"> webpage</div>, since IE has bad support of margin:auto; .

It gets even sillier when you try using xhtml strict, since then you can't even declare image width and height in the img tag, but have to create a separate class or id in css for each and every image.

Other problems are if you are embedding say a flash file, only IE supports <object>, which is the standards way to embed something. This is one of the sillier things, to get my xhtml pages to validate as zero error, for example, and still use flash, I javascript in the <embed> tag inside the object tag which fools the validator, but really defeats the whole point.