- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 19:46:06 +0300
On Aug 1, 2004, at 06:10, Matthew Thomas wrote: >> Now, similar argumentation does not work on the HTML side if we agree >> not to pretend that real SGML is being processed. Doctype sniffing is >> a tag soup solution to a tag soup problem. > > That's an extrapolation from a single data point. The only use of > doctype sniffing *so far* has been to handle quirky style/layout > expectations of old pages (and in the case of table style inheritance, > they wouldn't even need to be tag-soup pages). In the long run, > doctype sniffing may become a general-purpose method of changing *any* > undesired behavior (whether de-facto or de-jure) of old syntax in new > spec versions. From an XML or SGML point of view the syntactic construct is not appropriate for such use. That's why I said doctype sniffing is a tag soup solution. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://iki.fi/hsivonen/
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