- From: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 00:16:22 +0100
- To: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
On 27.02.01 at 13:33, Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com> wrote: >On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Nick Kew wrote: > >>Last time I checked, the correct behaviour here is to validate against >>HTML 2.0, but none of them do that. > >I don't think that is correct. The HTML 2.0 standard says [1] "To >identify information as an HTML document conforming to this specification, >each document must start with one of the following document type >declarations." IIRC, we've rehashed this a couple of times and the conclusion was that HTML 2.0 is the _only_ version of HTML that makes the DOCTYPE declaration optional and thus, if you have something that is "HTML", but which doesn't include a DOCTYPE declaration, it is, ipso facto, HTML 2.0.
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