- From: Maurice <maurice@thymeonline.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:05:02 -0400
- To: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
On 4/28/07 3:52 AM, "Mike Schinkel" <w3c-lists@mikeschinkel.com> wrote: > > Matthew Ratzloff wrote: >> To be honest, I'm not sure why so many people are opposed to perpetuating >> the standard DOCTYPE, with slight changes to remove the references to DTD. >> So it's not SGML. Who cares? Like it or not, DOCTYPEs are associated >> with both HTML and XHTML now. Why not: >> >> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//HTML 5.0//EN"> >> >> Is that really such a bad thing? >> > Yes it is a bad thing. It can't be remembered by people who don't use > it day in and day out. An insignificant number of web authors understand > it and the rest just copy and paste it, possibly getting it wrong, or > worse just don't include it (I know I've been in that latter category.) Agreed. Also, I'm for the versioning number idea. The IE guy complains that they must have it. The other browser people say they don't need it. Lets just put it in there so IE can -get moving- and so the rest of the web can finally get moving again. -- :: thyme online ltd :: po box cb13650 nassau the bahamas :: website: http://www.thymeonline.com/ :: tel: 242 327-1864 fax: 242 377 1038
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