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March 9, 2013 at 10:42 pm #127639
Merri
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The meaning of…

… is “the latest and greatest HTML”. You will get standards mode even in IE6 with that particular doctype so it isn’t really different from HTML 4.01 Strict or XHTML 1.0 Strict in that regard. You are not forced to write HTML5 tags if you use the doctype above so you can limit yourself to old tags and things will be fine. If you want HTML5 elements for improved semantics then you can use something like html5shiv.js or Modernizr to add HTML5 tags to older IEs. That of course means JavaScript. If your site targets mostly home users and non-corporate business users than it is quite likely you don’t need to worry about older IEs so much and scripts (and notifications to upgrade browser) will be ok. It is stagnant slowly moving corporates that are the most troublesome when it comes to browsers.