http://www.mobile.de/ (from the Alexa Top 500 list) says: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd" /> IE, Firefox and Opera (I've not tested Safari) treat that as standards mode. HTML5 says it must be treated as quirks mode, since the trailing slash is a syntax error and sets the 'incorrect' flag during tokenisation. Is this likely to be a compatibility problem that HTML5 should avoid? Relatedly, http://www.gamespy.com/ says: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" SYSTEM "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/> which is standards mode in IE, quirks mode in Firefox and Opera, and quirks mode in HTML5. I see '..." />' on roughly 0.02% of pages from dmoz.org, and (excluding gamespy.com) I see '..."/>' on roughly a quarter of that, so it's not a very widespread issue but it does exist. -- Philip Taylor pjt47@cam.ac.ukReceived on Wednesday, 27 February 2008 18:32:58 UTC
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