- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:32:57 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Cc: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
"Daniel Glazman" <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com> wrote: > Le 18/06/10 04:05, Boris Zbarsky a écrit : > > On 6/17/10 8:15 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > >> Firefox currently returns > >> > >> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 > >> > Transitional//EN"><html><head><title></title></head><body></body></html> > > > > Where by "currently" we mean "shipping Firefox". Development builds > have > > about:blank be the empty HTML document. See > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514412 > > Wow... Who said backwards-compatibility about HTML5? The current > behaviour of mozilla's about:blank is ages old. > > This is going to drastically impact some big web sites on one hand about:blank in IE8 doesn't have a doctype (but has an empty title element, though). about:blank in Safari has neither a doctype nor a title element. If this were a drastic problem for big sites, I expect Safari would already have run into the problem. > and > more importantly mozilla add-ons all relying on the current > about:blank containing a minimal HTML document. I disagree about "more importantly" when it comes to developing a Web spec to be implemented by multiple vendors. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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