Transitional versus Strict

[colr]

Is anybody aware of any preference the Search Engines may hold between Transitional and Strict HTML?

I assume Strict would be better because it forces styles to a stylesheet, thus increasing the pure textual content of an html page - is this correct?

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[adore]

I think that it doesn't make any difference to SEs. Provided your code is error-free, you have the same chances to get high position using either Transitional or Strict HTML.

[colr]

Thanks for the reply adore,

Has anybody else got any ideas/input on this?

I had thought that since strict-HTML forces attributes out of tags and into stylesheets would mean producing cleaner, content-rich code that would then be preferred by the Search Engines.

The reason I ask is I am currently re-working my companies website, so I now have the opportunity to clean up my predecessors code (I think the guy missed the lesson on adding comments!).

Is strict more broadly supported than transitional? i.e. across Opera, Netscape ...

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[ronniethedodger]

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