Dec 02 2008

Good enough for Google - The skinny Doctype

Published by Rich at 7:56 am under Business (web), Design (web), Search, Simplicity

Via Russ at Maxdesign a short and sweet window into the minimalist doctype identifier from Dustin Diaz, a Google user interface engineer.

His words: At Google, we have this obsession with byte size. And by byte size, any “lack-therof” the better. Therefore the doctype you will find on most Google webpages while still triggering the browser into “standards mode” is as simple as you see below:

<!doctype html>

It’s only a short post so read it here.

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