Re: Version information from Ian Hickson on 2007-04-12 (public-html@w3.org from April 2007)

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:36:24 +0000 (UTC)
To: Henrik Dvergsdal <henrik.dvergsdal@hibo.no>
Cc: public-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0704122135270.13484@dhalsim.dreamhost.com>

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Henrik Dvergsdal wrote:
> On 12. apr. 2007, at 23.23, David Håsäther wrote:
> > Henrik Dvergsdal wrote:
> > 
> > > I think the correct DOCTYPE would be:
> > > 
> > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 5.0//EN">
> > 
> > Why? <!doctype html> is a 34 bytes shorter way to trigger standards mode.
> 
> Because that wouldn't be a valid SGML/XML doctype.

SGML/XML aren't relevant to this discussion, as we're not talking about 
the SGML or XML serialisations of HTML, but the text/html serialistion.

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