Rookie Mistake - Should I fix it?

vozzek

Okay, don't laugh.

My website is 99% done, and I took painstaking steps to make it look the same in IE and Firefox. Aside from some spacing issues when using the <p> tag (Firefox skips more vertical space somehow) - it all looks good.

However... I just read somewhere that the DOCTYPE for my site should be brought to the standard 4.01. Right now, my entire website - every page - has a doctype of 1.0 Yikes.

I changed the main page from 1.0 to 4.01 and in IE it looks the same. In Firefox, I have all kinds of spacial problems around images and paragraph tags. This would be a nightmare to fix throughout my entire site. So two quick questions:

1) What are the ramifications (God I love that word...) of leaving the doctype 1.0?

2) Almost every page in my site is based on a template. Is there something I could put in the template (<head> section?) to fix the spacial issues caused by going from 1.0 to 4.01?

Okay, I'm done. You can laugh now.

drhowarddrfine

Using that doctype puts IE into quirks mode and it won't attempt to act like a modern browser, such as Firefox. The only thing to do is fix the doctype and get hacking, but use Firefox as your reference, never IE.

vozzek

Grrrr......... God I hate IE.

People still using IE are akin to people who used to still use AOL because they thought it was 'the internet'.

Remember those people?

drhowarddrfine

otoh, if spaces are most of your problem, you could try setting all margins to zero and adjust them individually. Try adding *{margin:0;padding:0} to your css and go from there.

mrhoo

Relax- nobody ever gets it right the first time.

Now, fix it.

Rookie Mistake - Should I fix it?

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