- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 03:19:24 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Cc: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>, dbaron@dbaron.org, hyatt@apple.com, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Simon Pieters wrote: > > > > I've got some data about doctypes at > > http://philip.html5.org/data/doctypes.html (125K pages from dmoz.org) > > and http://philip.html5.org/data/doctypes-alexa.html (about 400 from > > Alexa's list). I'm not entirely sure what this could be useful for, > > but I'll point out a couple of things here. > > [...] This means that Opera would break about 0.05% of pages of this > sample if we implemented HTML5 doctype switching, assuming that the > remaining pages I didn't look at were the same. > > I think this is pretty convincing that HTML5 needs to ignore what is in > place of the "EN" at the end of the FPIs, that is instead of matching > that the FPI is e.g. -//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN, check that it starts with > -//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//. > > For the FPIs that end in //EN//2.0 and the like, I'd suggest to just > drop them from the list since there are equivalent FPIs that end in //EN > and the //2.0 would be treated as trailing garbage. Done. This is quite a major change. I would like feedback from vendors about this change. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-initial -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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