- From: Jan Roland Eriksson <jrexon@newsguy.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:36:05 +0100
- To: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Cc: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>, <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:35:53 -0800, you wrote: >Either browsers handle valid content correctly or not, that has nothing to >do with DOCTYPE switching. You use the word "valid" in a way that leads me to beleive you are into SGML thinking here. As seen from that perspective, there are ways to produce a fully "valid" HTML document that would pass nsgmls with flying colors, but does not have a DOCTYPE declaration at the top of it. A document that does not contain any kind of markup that needs a declaration subset as a "side explanation" of proper syntax does not need a DOCTYPE declaration at the top of it either. MS-IE will definitely not handle such a doc "correctly", you know it, and the web-SGML-TC predicted it years back in time. -- Rex
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