I love this post of Dustin’s about how Google uses a shortened version of the DOCTYPE string to save bytes, even though it makes a validator say their pages are invalid. I don’t personally get too worried about a few bytes, but that’s a Very Big Deal™ to Google, and this is a perfect example of what I mean by “use web standards and best practices when they make sense, and don’t when they don’t.” Here, they’ve found a better solution for them than the understood “best practice.” That’s awesome.
Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with nGen Works, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.
I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.
The Skinny on Doctypes
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