- From: Philip & Le Khanh <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:21:06 +0100
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- CC: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>, Maurice Carey <maurice@thymeonline.com>, HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
Dan Connolly wrote: [snip] > I'd rather do without the <!DOCTYPE html>, but I suppose staying > out of quirks-mode is worthwhile. The whole business of the <!DOCTYPE ...> directive I find very worrying : I confidently assume that we will continue to rely on Validator.W3.Org to check the conformity of our HTML documents, but how is the validator to know against which DOCTYPE to validate if all that is written is <!DOCTYPE html> ? If HTML 5 launches a pre-emptive strike on <!DOCTYPE html> how is an HTML 6 document going to identify itself ? At the moment, the DOCTYPE directive, whilst a bit unwieldy, nonetheless conveys vital information about the document that follows. If the original plans of WHATWG regarding the DOCTYPE directive are adopted, then I fear that we may lose a very great deal. With all of Dan's other points I wholeheartedly agree, with the possible exception of the xmlns declaration about which I know sufficiently little to be confident that I am not in a position to offer an informed comment. Philip Taylor
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