Just to give my 2 cents here, I usually use this doctype as standard for websites:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
</head>
Chris
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