- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:26:49 -0700
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Cc: Daniel Schattenkirchner <schattenkirchner.daniel@gmx.de>, public-html@w3.org
On Mar 24, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > > Daniel Schattenkirchner wrote: >> from an authors point of view I was wondering how HTML5 will >> handle doctypes (I hope we all know why they are important). > > DOCTYPEs only serve 2 practical purposes in the real world for > HTML: DTD based validation and DOCTYPE sniffing. HTML5 does away > with DTD based validation because DTDs cannot express the > conformance requirements of HTML adequately enough (there are much > better alternatives!). When HTML6 comes out, but there are still HTML5 conformance checkers around, wouldn't you want to mark your HTML6 document as something that should not necessarily be expected to pass an HTML5 conformance checker? Likewise for HTML5 now and HTML4 validators. Regards, Maciej
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