Fwd: [w3c/html] Can HTML Mail be exempt from using <DOCTYPE>? (And get no-quirks rendering) (#255)

For information - an issue raised on HTML 5.1

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Subject: [w3c/html] Can HTML Mail be exempt from using <DOCTYPE>? (And get  
no-quirks rendering) (#255)
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 19:22:22 +0100

This issue is related to issue #253. @komputist

> PROPOSAL:
>
> For HTML mail, the DOCTYPE should be ignored, falling back to no-quirks  
> rendering. THus doctype should not be required. This should be said in  
> new section somewhere in the spec.
>
> COMMMENT:
>
> Mail is a "date stamped" format that is stored inside private mailboxes.  
> Thus legacy issues are probably seldom.  For online webmail, the  
> rendering mode probably almost always depends on the rendering mode of  
> the Web app.
>
> Thus, all in all, the only reliable way forward is to make all HTML mail  
> use no-quirks mode and only no-quirks mode. HTML mail is the number one  
> production equipment for HTML and we gotta make it so that mail  
> applications by default and with ease can produce conforming HTML. For  
> many Web authors, it would be a benefit if it this way became simpler to  
> get the same rendering mode etc across email readers.
>
> Please see #253, which proposes a general approach for de-emphasizing  
> the DOCTYPE and instead emphasizing the rendering mode.

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