- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:45:43 +0300
- To: Jeff Schiller <codedread@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Apr 18, 2007, at 09:07, Jeff Schiller wrote: > and people here are proposing a variety of things like: > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 5.0//EN" "some-url"> > or > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 5.0//EN"> > or > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "HTML5"> > > all of which are smaller than the existing boilerplate. A variety of things has been proposed, but so far the merits of the proposals about doctypes other than <!DOCTYPE html> have not substantiated in comparison to <!DOCTYPE html> plus an optional attribute on root in any way other than saying that HTML 4 did it too. Specifically, the proposals tend to ignore XML tooling and the XHTML5 serialization altogether. On the other hand, Jirka Kosek, Maciej Stachowiak and I have put forward *use cases* that show that *if* there is to be a version flag, putting it in an attribute on the root element is going to be less painful than putting it in the public id. Finally, I'd like to call attention to http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/#xml -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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