[Bug 16591] New: Suggestion: addition of 5 to doctype tag. ie, <!DOCTYPE html5>, for future proofing in case, for example, html6 conflicts with html5. Browsers seeing <!DOCTYPE html> or no doctype (for the most basic, valid html) should just assume the latest html standar

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16591

           Summary: Suggestion: addition of 5 to doctype tag. ie,
                    <!DOCTYPE html5>, for future proofing in case, for
                    example, html6 conflicts with html5. Browsers seeing
                    <!DOCTYPE html> or no doctype (for the most basic,
                    valid html) should just assume the latest html standar
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
Suggestion: addition of 5 to doctype tag. ie, <!DOCTYPE html5>, for future
proofing in case, for example, html6 conflicts with html5. Browsers seeing
<!DOCTYPE html> or no doctype (for the most basic, valid html) should just
assume the latest html standard for simple pages.

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Received on Saturday, 31 March 2012 17:09:54 UTC