On Sun Jun 17 16:09 , Ian Hickson sent:

>>On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Sean Fraser wrote:
>>> On Sat Jun 16 18:47 , Ian Hickson sent:
>> >
>> > Conforming HTML4 and XHTML1 docs will not become non-conforming HTML4
>> > won't be conforming HTML5 docs because they aren't HTML5 docs in the
>> > first place. I don't see this as a problem.
>>>
>>> If a document is conforming HTML 4 (with the appropriate doctype used)
>>> but the doctype were changed to an HTML5 doctype and passed HTML5
>>> conformance checking, that document would be both HTML4 and HTML5
>>> conforming.

>In many cases yes (there are also many cases where that's not the case, as
>HTML5 closes a number of loopholes that were in HTML4).

True.


>> I'm curious. What makes an HTML5 document an HTML5 document?

>I don't understand the question. What do you mean?

It is this part "...they aren't HTML5 docs in the first place."  from your sentence above. What does _that_ mean?


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