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Validating code - Which version of HTML is best?

How to choose....

KMxRetro

10:06 pm on Feb 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hi all,
I'm currently recoding my site and I'll be making sure that it validates against the correct HTML standard. My question is this....

Which standard is it best to use? HTML 3.2? HTML 4.0?

Does it make a difference when it comes to search engines spidering your site? Does Google like some standards better than others?

Your thoughts are appreciated... :)

Brett_Tabke

10:26 pm on Feb 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

There tends to be fewer spider problems with 3.2, but 4.0 is so prevalent, they have to deal with it. So either is ok today.

g1smd

8:58 pm on Feb 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Something like:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title> Title Here </title>

etc, should do it....

DrDoc

12:18 am on Feb 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

And, if HTML4 works fine, then XHTML1 should work just as fine.