- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:11:39 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Henrik Dvergsdal <henrik.dvergsdal@hibo.no>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Henrik Dvergsdal wrote: > > If you remove the public identifier and/or DTD URL from the doctype, the > only semantics left is that the document element has to be "html". We > should consider removing it alltogether. This was examined in detail; unfortunately it seems the shortest DOCTYPE that triggers standards mode in browsers today is the one proposed. > How are we going to facilitate validation? http://hsivonen.iki.fi/validator/html5/ > In what other ways is our new markup language going to deviate from > SGML? There are various aspects of the syntax that deviate from SGML, most are inherited from legacy HTML implementations. You may find some of the questions here useful: http://blog.whatwg.org/faq -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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