- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:45:50 +0200
- To: "Dailey, David P." <david.dailey@sru.edu>, "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Erik Dahlström <ed@opera.com>
- Cc: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:24:57 +0200, Dailey, David P. <david.dailey@sru.edu> wrote: > Okay, I'm easy to convince. I've usually not put DOCTYPE's in my SVG > since someone who presumably knew what they were talking about told me > it was a bad idea. To me DOCTYPE's and namespaces are all magic -- just > tell me what to do and please don't change the rules too often. Yeah, avoiding DOCTYPEs is probably good. Henri wrote in his thesis why DTDs are a bad idea: http://hsivonen.iki.fi/thesis/html5-conformance-checker.xhtml#dtd (The specific problem here is what he calls "Infoset Augmentation".) -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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