Re: ISSUE-54: doctype-legacy-compat

Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
> So, to continue an earlier idea of mine [1], how about
> 
>   <!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM "about:dtd-compat">
> 
> Such a DTD would be easy to explain - e.g in Wikipedia, which allready 
> has an article about DOCTYPES, including the "DTD-less" HTML 5 doctype 
> [2].

Using any string containing "dtd" is potentially misleading because it 
could suggest the availability of a DTD.  The exception would be 
something like "about:no-dtd" which makes it clear there isn't one, but 
that doesn't make it clear that this DOCTYPE is meant for compatibility 
purposes.

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Received on Monday, 26 January 2009 12:09:52 UTC