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- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:32:56 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10793
Summary: Make the DOCTYPE by default XML-compatible: lowercase
'html'
Product: HTML WG
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
URL: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/syntax#the-doctype
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
ReportedBy: xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no
QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
public-html@w3.org
Spec says:
]] In other words, <!DOCTYPE HTML>, case-insensitively. [[
Proposal:
Use 'html' instead of 'HTML':
]] In other words, <!DOCTYPE html>, case-insensitively. [[
And add that when used for XHTML, then the DOCTYPE is a case-_sensitive_ match
of the string '<!DOCTYPE html>'.
The proposal was suggested by Maciej in April (which I then unwisely rejected):
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Apr/1199
Motivation 1: Make more people (unknowingly) do it right when they try to be
XHTML-compaptible/polyglot.
Motivation 2: According to Sam, HTML5 "lowercases element and non-namespaced
attribute names"
http://intertwingly.net/slides/2010/ws-rest/html5-15
Thus it should be more consistent to lowerase the 'html' string.
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