On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 17:47 +0100, Andrew Sidwell wrote: > Justin James wrote: > > Thanks! > > > > This seems like less than ideal behavior. What is the point of DOCTYPE if > > UAs don't make any kind of decisions based upon it? > > There isn't much of one; it's a talisman. Certain doctypes put layout > engines into "Standards mode", rather than "Quirks mode". <!DOCTYPE > html> is the shortest string that triggers standards mode in all > browsers, which is why it's the HTML5 doctype. Browsers have never > switched how they behave based on the version of HTML being used, and > none of them intend to. I don't think the spec captures that rationale, so let's make sure it's captured in the issue tracker... ISSUE-4 html-versioning HTML Versioning and DOCTYPEs http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/4 -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29EReceived on Monday, 22 September 2008 20:53:37 GMT
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