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HTML5 Features - New Doctype

1. New Doctype

Still using that pesky, impossible-to-memorize XHTML doctype?
  1. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"  
  2.     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">  
If so, why? Switch to the new HTML5 doctype. You’ll live longer — as Douglas Quaid might say.
  1. <!DOCTYPE html>  
In fact, did you know that it truthfully isn’t even really necessary for HTML5? However, it’s used for current, and older browsers that require a specified doctype. Browsers that do not understand this doctype will simply render the contained markup in standards mode. So, without worry, feel free to throw caution to the wind, and embrace the new HTML5 doctype.
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