[Bug 6132] New: No whitespace before "<!DOCTYPE HTML" in content sniffing

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6132

           Summary: No whitespace before "<!DOCTYPE HTML" in content
                    sniffing
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Spec bugs
        AssignedTo: dave.null@w3.org
        ReportedBy: simonp@opera.com
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: ian@hixie.ch, mike@w3.org, public-html@w3.org


2.7.4 Content-Type sniffing: unknown type says in the table:

FF FF DF DF DF DF DF DF DF FF DF DF DF DF       3C 21 44 4F 43 54 59 50 45 20
48 54 4D 4C       text/html       Scriptable      The string "<!DOCTYPE HTML"
in US-ASCII or compatible encodings, case-insensitively.

Any reason why whitespace before the doctype isn't skipped (considering that
whitespace is skipped before "<HTML", "<HEAD" and "<SCRIPT")?


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Received on Wednesday, 1 October 2008 14:33:49 UTC