Re: Versioning and html[5]

On 13 Apr 2007, at 23:02, Matthew Ratzloff wrote:

>
> On Fri, April 13, 2007 2:55 pm, Arthur Jennings wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Safari and Firefox don't recognize "<!DOCTYPE html>" as a valid  
> doctype,
> instead bailing out to quirks mode.

Huh? They do. What they don't recognise is <!DOCTYPE html5>.


- Geoffrey Sneddon

Received on Friday, 13 April 2007 22:22:24 UTC