- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:03:38 +0100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>
On 20 Jul 2008, at 13:51, Julian Reschke wrote: > Julian Reschke wrote: >> Lachlan Hunt wrote: >>> Julian Reschke wrote: >>>> Is there a particular reason why this document doesn't even seem >>>> to try to be a valid HTML document? >>> >>> Care to elaborate? The HTML5 validator only reports a couple of >>> errors that are all related to the incorrect use of composing >>> characters and not being in NFC. This is clearly just a result of >>> the script I'm using to generate the file not doing anything >>> special with those particular character references yet. But I >>> would hardly call that not trying to be valid. >> How about starting the document with <html>, for instance? >> ... > > I just realized that it says it is HTML5, so this is probably > intentional. It can be omitted under HTML 4.01, too. The only things that make the document non-conforming at the moment are the DOCTYPE, the changes to meta, and the changes to style. > Not sure whether it's a good idea to use HTML5 for things that > aren't really experimental... I guess part of the problem is that HTML 5 adds new entities (the MathML ones), which would make it impossible to have as a conforming HTML 4.01 file. I assume you intend to add the MathML ones to the document, Lachlan? -- Geoffrey Sneddon <http://gsnedders.com/>
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