Re: If we have versioning, it should be in an attribute, not the doctype

On Apr 26, 2007, at 19:50, Daniel Spång wrote:

> While not taking position regarding the version issue itself  I just
> want to add that using an attribute on the html element  will
> obviously not work when html start tag is omitted according to the
> rules in:
>
> <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/ 
> section-writing.html#omitted>

The root element start tag has to be present if you want to include  
*any* attribute. Therefore, if one is using a version/bugmode  
attribute, one cannot omit the tag.

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Henri Sivonen
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Received on Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:45:24 UTC