[pmwiki-users] DOCTYPE suppression is that bad?

[Thomas -Balu- Walter]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 10:17:37AM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> You should probably have that the other way around, since the DOCTYPE
> needs to be the first thing in the document.

This is what I always wanted to figure out myself - is there a comment
or a blank line allowed before the doctype. 

> I'm also not sure how the non-IE browsers would react to statements such
> as
>         <![if !IE]>

They don't know the tag and should ignore it.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/ccomment_ovw.asp

     Balu