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 15:42:10 -0700
To: "Geoffrey Sneddon" <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
Cc: matt@builtfromsource.com, public-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <57580290704131542q456fedc8q70a21c8d68b17cb7@mail.gmail.com>

Yeah,I thought the whole point of "<!DOCTYPE html>" was that it triggered
standards mode in current browsers. Otherwise, why have it at all?

On 4/13/07, Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> On 13 Apr 2007, at 23:02, Matthew Ratzloff wrote:
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> > Safari and Firefox don't recognize "<!DOCTYPE html>" as a valid
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> > instead bailing out to quirks mode.
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> Huh? They do. What they don't recognise is <!DOCTYPE html5>.
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> - Geoffrey Sneddon
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-- 
Arthur Jennings

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