- From: Ben 'Cerbera' Millard <cerbera@projectcerbera.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:32:15 +0100
- To: "HTMLWG" <public-html@w3.org>
- Cc: "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>
In HTML5: * Doctypes are just for triggering standards mode [1]. * All text/html content is to be processed as HTML5 [2]. I propose making the HTML4 Strict and XHTML1 doctypes conforming, in addition to <!doctype html>. Rationale: 1. The HTML4 Strict and XHTML1 doctypes are from current W3C Recommendations. 2. They already have somewhat widespread use (professionals using CSS). 3. They already achieve what HTML5 wants (trigger standards mode). 4. So they might as well be conforming sequences of bytes to trigger standards mode in HTML5. It's a bit sad, imho, to say all currently conforming HTML4 and XHTML1 documents will become non-conforming solely because they use a sequence of bytes which is not the shortest possible but does exactly the same thing. [1] <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-writing.html#the-doctype> [2] <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-conformance.html#interactive>
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