title: HTML DTDs - what's the point?
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/255470/what-are-the-different-doctypes-in-html-and-what-do-they-mean">What are the different doctypes in html and what do they mean?</a>  </p>
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  <p>Being fairly inexperienced with certain aspects of web development (I've always concentrated more on the back-end than the front), can anyone give me their thoughts on whether I should worry about the DOCTYPE declaration made at the beginning of web pages?</p>
  
  <p>Is the most common HTML 4.01 and should I build my web apps to conform to this standard?</p>