- From: Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:42:24 +0200
- To: matt@builtfromsource.com
- CC: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Matthew Ratzloff schrieb: > 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. Actually, the WHATWG chose <!DOCTYPE html> because it does trigger standards mode across browsers. --Dao
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