This is my first posting here.

I notice that CCHTML-editor defaults to HTML-5. I'm no expert, but it has seemed to me that the best and most accessible version to use today would be HTML-4.01-transitional, if one wanted to make one's site accessible to the most people.

Right now, I'm just trying to learn more about HTML instead of creating a website, so I don't really have anything to show other than a hosted blog on WordPress.com, where I have little latitude to play with much HTML.

Regards,

Alan OldStudent
The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living -- Socrates
My Web Site

Hello Alan,
You may not have noticed that you can set a number of preferences for your documents, including the DOC TYPE by going to the TOOLS > PREFERENCES in the CCHTML Editor. Personally I have my all my new pages set up as follows:

HTML4, XHTML,HTML5, transitional, or strict, can all be coded to be either be accessible or not so much. It's not the doctype that matters, it's how the HTML is written.

Also, File, New from Quick Start menu will also allow you to define what DOCTYPE you want to use.

Thanks for the information, people.

What puzzles me is why CCHTML-editor defaults to HTML-5, which still has not been completed and which neither Firefox nor IE really fully support?

Don't the majority of people surfing the web use browsers that recognize HTML-4.01 transitional?

Regards,

Alan OldStudent
The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living -- Socrates
My Web Site

Most of the HTML5 specs are already supported by all browsers, so using HTML5 as a DOCTYPE now is not a problem. You can however make the default DOCTYPE whatever you like. Just go to Tools > Preferences and set your preference.

Thanks, Scott,

I had not realized that.



Regards,

Alan OldStudent
The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living -- Socrates
My Web Site

Alan Oldstudent,

I like your website. I wanted to contact you personally regarding it, but I was unable to find your contact information. How may I contact you by email?

By the way, don't post your email in the forum, just provide a link to wherever your contact information is.

Or, simply go to

www.innovatewebdevelopment.com

and send me a contact.

Thanks.

Hi Eric

You wrote:


I hope this is not violating any rules to talk too much about my website. But if you go to it and click on the About My Musings tab at the top of the site, right above the title banner, that should take you to a page with a contact form. That's a clickable link up there, by the way.

I'm glad you asked about it, because just prior to composing this message, I tested it out and saw it needed a bit of repair. It's working now.

I noticed you're interested in philosophy. I've had an interest in it since the 1950s when I first started reading some popular books on it and then a few of the well-known philosophers.

Regards,

Alan OldStudent
The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living -- Socrates
My Web Site