That's fine :D Like I said, some things just work better as desktop apps, without being constrained by a browser window.
Still, if you're gonna develop desktop stuff you'll have to ask someone else though, as I've not got any modern experience with it :$
I dare you to try downloading the Oracle database client. And actually get it working.
Don't feel stupid for getting confused by the Sun website. It'd bloody awful.
<!doctype html><html lang="en"> <TITLE>Hello!</TITLE> <p>Wooohoo!!! <p>I <3 lemons.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html lang="en" xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Hello!</title> </head> <body> <p>Wooohoo!!!</p> <p>I <3 lemons.</p> </body> </html>
Your first one doesn't validate at w3C :C
and also, surely that there that you've posted - browsers interpreting HTML any old way they want - is the reason web drawers spend so long having to make sites work in different browsers?