Re: ISSUE-54: doctype-legacy-compat

Anne van Kesteren wrote:

> Well, a) this DOCTYPE gives quirks mode in Firefox so is not an option
> anyway and b) we are having this discussion because of compatibility
> with XML tools; surely we can assume their serializers are not so messed
> up that they cannot generate the well-formed <!DOCTYPE html>, but can
> generate the non well-formed <!DOCTYPE html "">?

Why would you generate !DOCTYPE in XHTML content at all? And I don't
think that anyone is proposing use of <!DOCTYPE html ""> which is
incompatible with everything.

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Received on Friday, 16 January 2009 13:28:47 UTC