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Added the doctype vs DOCTYPE question #310

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@phanan phanan commented Jul 13, 2015

Do you write <!doctype html> or <!DOCTYPE html>? Explain your choice.

This question is inspired by a very interesting discussion in h5bp/html5-boilerplate, which some of you guys here are a part of. While it may sound tricky and/or nit-picky, being able to explain such a choice will say a lot about the candidate.

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Nah. I'm 👎. At a boilerplate it made sense to discuss this, because it's a boilerplate, but it's super nitpicky and people should not waste time discussing something like this.

Both options don't have important adventages/disadventages, it's just a code style decision. Just like we don't ask people if they write function () {} or function() {}.

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phanan commented Jul 20, 2015

While I agree on this:

At a boilerplate it made sense to discuss this, because it's a boilerplate, but it's super nitpicky and people should not waste time discussing something like this.

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Both options don't have important adventages/disadventages, it's just a code style decision. Just like we don't ask people if they write function () {} or function() {}.

isn't exactly the same with what I had in mind when proposing this question. True, no style has more important (dis)advantages than the other, but the question should give the interviewee a good chance to show off their knowledge/skill (compression? consistency? IDE compatibility?)

Anyway, again, I'd agree on your first point.

@phanan phanan deleted the doctypeDOCTYPE branch March 17, 2016 01:43
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