- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:57:39 -0700
- To: matt@builtfromsource.com
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Apr 17, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Matthew Ratzloff wrote: > > On Tue, April 17, 2007 1:51 pm, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > >> 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. :-) Just to be super clear, I'm *not* saying versioning is good (I'll state my opinion on that more generally soon). But I do think that *if* we have a version marker, it should be an attribute on the root, not part of the doctype declaration. Regards, Maciej
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