4.01 HTML Transitional
HTML 4.01 has 3 document type these being Strict, Transitional and Frameset. It is worth mention at this point frame-set are obsolete and cause major issues in terms of SEO as the search engine spider will only crawel one frame per frame set if your site is using frame i would sujest contact a company such as our self as you currently have no voice on the web. In this blog we are intrested in HTML Transitional and The best way to identify whether your current site is html transitional is to open up the source code of the document and look a the line above the <html> tag if it reads
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd”>
Then your page is html transitional. Html Transitional is very similar to HTML Strict although there are a number of differences:
first it allow the use of presentational attributes Such as <p align=”center”> which have now in most case been left behied in favor of cascading style sheets (CSS)
Secondly it allow for deprecated tags these are tags such as <centre> <font> which the W3c web standard agency are phasing out in favor of cascading style sheets (CSS)
Thirdly Html Transitional allow for link targets such as <a href=”http://www.positiongoldltd.com” target=”_blank”> which has to be replaced with Java script for some for some other form of html formating
For this reason HTML Transitional is properly the easy of all the html type to validate because it uses all the old method and most of the new methods of html it will eventually be fazed out. Today web developer still continue to the this doc type so i can’t see it happening in the near future and in many case it is preferable. If you would like more information on what document type your site is or how to get your site up to web stand please contact us for a no-obligation quote.
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