hixie: vaguely push people towards a polyglot-compatible doctype (whatwg r5570)

hixie: vaguely push people towards a polyglot-compatible doctype (whatwg
r5570)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.4451&r2=1.4452&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5569&to=5570

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
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--- Overview.html 30 Sep 2010 08:44:12 -0000 1.4451
+++ Overview.html 30 Sep 2010 08:47:45 -0000 1.4452
@@ -52759,14 +52759,14 @@
   following the relevant specifications.<p>A DOCTYPE must consist of the following characters, in this
   order:<ol class="brief"><li>A string that is an <a href="#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a> match for the string "<code title="">&lt;!DOCTYPE</code>".</li>
    <li>One or more <a href="#space-character" title="space character">space characters</a>.</li>
-   <li>A string that is an <a href="#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a> match for the string "<code title="">HTML</code>".</li>
+   <li>A string that is an <a href="#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a> match for the string "<code title="">html</code>".</li>
    <li>Optionally, a <a href="#doctype-legacy-string">DOCTYPE legacy string</a> or an <a href="#obsolete-permitted-doctype-string">obsolete permitted DOCTYPE string</a> (defined below).</li>
    <li>Zero or more <a href="#space-character" title="space character">space characters</a>.</li>
    <li>A U+003E GREATER-THAN SIGN character (&gt;).</li>
-  </ol><p class="note">In other words, <code>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML&gt;</code>,
+  </ol><p class="note">In other words, <code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;</code>,
   case-insensitively.<hr><p>For the purposes of HTML generators that cannot output HTML
   markup with the short DOCTYPE "<code title="">&lt;!DOCTYPE
-  HTML&gt;</code>", a <dfn id="doctype-legacy-string">DOCTYPE legacy string</dfn> may be inserted
+  html&gt;</code>", a <dfn id="doctype-legacy-string">DOCTYPE legacy string</dfn> may be inserted
   into the DOCTYPE (in the position defined above). This string must
   consist of:<ol class="brief"><li>One or more <a href="#space-character" title="space character">space characters</a>.</li>
    <li>A string that is an <a href="#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a> match for the string "<code title="">SYSTEM</code>".</li>
@@ -52774,8 +52774,8 @@
    <li>A U+0022 QUOTATION MARK or U+0027 APOSTROPHE character (the <i>quote mark</i>).</li>
    <li>The literal string "<code><a href="#about:legacy-compat">about:legacy-compat</a></code>".</li>
    <li>A matching U+0022 QUOTATION MARK or U+0027 APOSTROPHE character (i.e. the same character as in the earlier step labeled <i>quote mark</i>).</li>
-  </ol><p class="note">In other words, <code>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM
-  "about:legacy-compat"&gt;</code> or <code>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM
+  </ol><p class="note">In other words, <code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM
+  "about:legacy-compat"&gt;</code> or <code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM
   'about:legacy-compat'&gt;</code>, case-insensitively except for the
   part in single or double quotes.<p>The <a href="#doctype-legacy-string">DOCTYPE legacy string</a> should not be used unless
   the document is generated from a system that cannot output the

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