- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 04:10:36 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > This is harder to answer. I don't have data offhand on how many quirks > mode pages have no doctype at all (as opposed to one of the > quirks-whitelisted doctypes). My gut feeling is that we're talking > about several percent of pages at least here, though not all will be > broken to an equal extent (some might work ok in standards mode). > > I'd love to see hard numbers here, but again my gut feeling is that as a > UA implementor I can't make that sort of change. IIRC, my research found 50% of pages had no DOCTYPE. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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