- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 22:54:55 +0200
- To: public-vocabs@w3.org
It has been suggested by a few folk that the schema.org site ought to
have an HTML5 doctype.
ie. <!DOCTYPE html>
Currently the top of pages looks like
"<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>..."
AFAIK nothing in the site's main page content is heavily XMLish,
although my preference is that each page ought to at least parse as
well-formed XML.
My inclination (and I have no strong expertise on the current
subtleties of this choice) would be to switch to the simpler <!DOCTYPE
html> doctype. Also to lose the xmlns= declaration, and then per
http://www.w3.org/TR/html-polyglot/#language-attributes to use both
xml:lang and lang, so the document has both an XML and HTML reading.
How does this sound? Am I missing any 'gotchas'?
Feedback welcomed.
Dan
Received on Wednesday, 8 August 2012 20:55:24 UTC