alt Hacker NewsI always include `<meta charset="utf-8">`. Is that still necessary?
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neilv • last Monday at 6:03 AM
I also do that and a couple other things. I used mostly '94 HTML for the comment, to try to make a point.
kxrm • last Monday at 5:15 AM
if the server supplies this as a header, it's not necessary.
you don't even need `<!doctype html>`. I'm sure it's easy to look up when that was added/recommended, but i've never used it when i do a 94 html page/site like this. html head title /title /head body /body /html 'sit