- From: Andrew Sidwell <takkaria@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:55:21 +0100
- To: Jeff Schiller <codedread@gmail.com>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Jeff Schiller wrote: > > On 4/18/07, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote: >> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:07:46 +1000, Jeff Schiller <codedread@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Jeff Schiller wrote: >> >> > And even if you can be reasonably confident - what is the harm in >> >> > introducing a "5" into the DOCTYPE somewhere? >> >> >> >> It encourages people to think of HTML as a versioned specification, >> > >> > HTML is a versioned specification. >> >> I think he meant versioned language. >> > > Isn't HTML a versioned language? HTML 3.2 is different than HTML > 4.01, isn't it? No, it's not. You can use HTML 4 tags in HTML 3.2 documents; similarly, you will be able to use HTML5 tags in HTML4 documents. The idea here is that browsers use the same code to parse and render all versions of HTML (with some changes based on quirks vs. standards mode). Andrew Sidwell
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