- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:05:34 -0400
- To: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- CC: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On 6/17/10 8:15 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> Firefox currently returns
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
> Transitional//EN"><html><head><title></title></head><body></body></html>
Where by "currently" we mean "shipping Firefox". Development builds
have about:blank be the empty HTML document. See
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514412
> according to View Source, and this is also non-conforming
> (almost-standards doctype).
That's a quirks doctype. See
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tokenization.html#quirks-mode-doctypes
the last item in the list:
# The system identifier is missing and the public identifier starts
with: "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//"
-Boris
Received on Friday, 18 June 2010 02:06:18 UTC