Re: Versioning and html[5] from Arthur Jennings on 2007-04-13 (public-html@w3.org from April 2007)

From: Arthur Jennings <arthur.jennings@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:55:17 -0700
To: "Chris Wilson" <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <57580290704131455m1a2debd8r27dc95bf9ddf8068@mail.gmail.com>

On 4/13/07, Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com> wrote:

Well, then I'd recommend ignoring what IE is doing (adding opt-ins to not
> break back-compat), and making sure there's a clearly identifiable
> identifier on new HTML content (because then we can auto-opt-in IE).
>

Perhaps this is a dumb question, but why can't "<!DOCTYPE html>" be that
clearly identifiable identifier? I doubt it currently occurs in the wild
outside of authors who are anticipating HTML 5.

-- 
Arthur Jennings

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