- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:23:57 +0300
- To: Philip & Le Khanh <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
- Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>, Maurice Carey <maurice@thymeonline.com>, HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
On Jun 19, 2007, at 00:21, Philip & Le Khanh wrote: > The whole business of the <!DOCTYPE ...> directive I find > very worrying : I confidently assume that we will continue to > rely on Validator.W3.Org to check the conformity of our > HTML documents, In that case, validator.w3.org will need a software upgrade. It is totally unreasonable to expect an SGML validator to be suitable for HTML5 conformance checking. > but how is the validator to know against > which DOCTYPE to validate if all that is written is > > <!DOCTYPE html> If the validator (with upgraded software) sees that doctype, it can dispatch to an HTML5 mode. > ? If HTML 5 launches a pre-emptive strike on > > <!DOCTYPE html> > > how is an HTML 6 document going to identify itself ? Either HTML 6 will be compatible so that it doesn't need to tell itself apart from HTML5. If the people who define HTML 6 in the future don't have the good sense to make their spec compatible, surely we can trust them to have the good sense to introduce a version discriminator then. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
Received on Tuesday, 19 June 2007 07:21:03 UTC