- From: Matthew Ratzloff <matt@builtfromsource.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:52:32 -0700 (PDT)
- To: public-html@w3.org
On Tue, April 17, 2007 1:51 pm, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > If we require a version marker (and I don't necessarily agree we > should), A version marker hurts nothing for those that choose not to use it and provides necessary information for those that do. For those reasons, I think it's essential. > it should be in an attribute on the root element, not in the > doctype string. > > [...] > > <!DOCTYPE html> > <html version=5.0> I agree; this is fine. In fact, Simon Pieters, I, and others proposed this very thing on the WHAT WG list (for the reasons Chris Wilson stated) and were promptly shut down. So it's nice to see others come to the same conclusion after all this back and forth. :-) -Matt
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