Re: Allow other doctypes

On 6/17/07, Sean Fraser <sean@elementary-group.com> wrote:
>  On Sun Jun 17 16:09 , "Michael A. Puls II"  sent:
>
>
> >If you don't care about conforming, you could theoretically
>  >use HTML5 elements with any HTML doctype as the browser
>  >just handles HTML period. (However this might not be true
>  >for all browsers.)
>
>  Graceful error handling allows browsers to ignore undefined elements but
> render defined elements, e.g., dialog is ignored but its dt/dd elements are
> displayed. I did the following rough test case with a few HTML5 elements
> some months ago to see what occurs during error handling:
> http://www.elementary-group-standards.com/formaldehyde/html-html5-elements.html
>  Some browsers already render canvas.

Yep. Everything falls back nicely, even in Netscape 4.8 and Opera 2.12.

-- 
Michael

Received on Monday, 18 June 2007 08:15:12 UTC