Over the past few years my friends and I have put together some simple webpages regarding Taiwan history and related topics. Now some acquaintances have offered to translate these webpages into Japanese.
An example of this simple type of webpage is here --
http://www.taiwanbasic.com/civil/histdev.htm
. . . . and a link to the Chinese version is provided at the bottom.
My question regards the proper DOCTYPE declaration which should be given at the top of an HTML document which is intended to be shown in Japanese. I am unfamiliar with this aspect, and wonder if some more knowledgeable persons could offer some advice on this "Japanese webpage" aspect.
When writing these types of simple webpages, here are the typical DOCTYPE declarations that I have been using.
[ENGLISH]
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
[CHINESE]
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//ZH">
I tried to find a random Japanese webpage via http://www.google.co.jp . . . . . and found a simple page whose source code contained the following declaration at the beginning.
[JAPANESE]
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="ja" lang="ja">
Is this what I am looking for? Or are some adjustments and changes needed? Any advice from persons with expertise in this area would be appreciated.
HTML DOCTYPE declarations
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Re: HTML DOCTYPE declarations
by Brendon » 08 Jun 2012, 19:51
The clean, modern way to do this is just:
The bare "html" DOCTYPE indicates modern HTML (aka HTML5, although the WHATWG has given up on having version numbers from here on out). And since this is just HTML, not XHTML, you don't need the xmlns or xml:lang attributes.
Ideally you'd then run the page through the W3C Validator and fix the spam of complaints it will almost certainly give you.
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="ja">
The bare "html" DOCTYPE indicates modern HTML (aka HTML5, although the WHATWG has given up on having version numbers from here on out). And since this is just HTML, not XHTML, you don't need the xmlns or xml:lang attributes.
Ideally you'd then run the page through the W3C Validator and fix the spam of complaints it will almost certainly give you.
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Re: HTML DOCTYPE declarations
by Hartzell » 10 Jun 2012, 05:46
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="ja">
This is certainly much more simplified than I had expected. Perhaps I should revise many of my old webpages to conform to the new syntax.
Is this "new syntax" commonly available on HTML teaching websites? Can you provide the appropriate URLs which have all related information??
<html lang="ja">
This is certainly much more simplified than I had expected. Perhaps I should revise many of my old webpages to conform to the new syntax.
Is this "new syntax" commonly available on HTML teaching websites? Can you provide the appropriate URLs which have all related information??
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Re: HTML DOCTYPE declarations
by Charlie Phillips » 10 Jun 2012, 14:41
Hartzell wrote:<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="ja">
This is certainly much more simplified than I had expected. Perhaps I should revise many of my old webpages to conform to the new syntax.
Is this "new syntax" commonly available on HTML teaching websites? Can you provide the appropriate URLs which have all related information??
http://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Training/HTML_Document
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Re: HTML DOCTYPE declarations
by Brendon » 10 Jun 2012, 14:42
I don't have a recommendation for a tutorial-type site (though I'm sure they exist), but here's an overview:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/#doctype
A number of the new elements listed there might be of interest too, as they allow richer semantic annotation for article content.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/#doctype
A number of the new elements listed there might be of interest too, as they allow richer semantic annotation for article content.
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