- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:26:23 +0000 (UTC)
- To: public-html@w3.org
Per the meeting earlier today, I looked at the feedback on the DOCTYPE issue [1] and changed the spec in the following ways: * Removed mention of XSLT regarding the legacy DOCTYPE string, per Julian's comment from last August. [2] * Changed "XSLT-compat" to "legacy-compat" as per the suggestion made on the 2009-01-08 teleconference. [3] * Changed from using a fake public identifier to using a fake system identifier per Philip's research. [4] * Added "about:" before the magic string as per Henri's suggestion. [5] Rationale and comments: I apologise in advance for not having made everyone happy (in particular Lachlan raised the issue of the string "legacy-compat" being overly vague about who it is that we're being compatible with). I didn't want to make it even longer than it already is. I didn't use the string "sgml-compat", or variants on the theme such as "about:blank-dtd", because they seemed even more misleading -- we're not being compatible with SGML at all, and there is no DTD at all (indeed it makes no sense to even talk about a DTD here, this is neither XML nor SGML). I hope that this makes enough people happy. I also moved the text about the XML DOCTYPE down to the new XHTML syntax section and elaborated a bit on the points made in that text. [1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/54 [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Aug/0922.html [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jan/0063.html [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jan/0160.html [5] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jan/0164.html Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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