- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 11:15:00 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Olav Junker [iso-8859-1] Kj?r wrote: > > Is comments allowed before the doctype in HTML? In MSIE, a strict > doctype preceded by a comment will not trigger standards mode, but in > Mozilla it will. From the HTML 4 spec, its not clear whether comments is > allowed before the doctype. (Of course this must be defined somewhere in > SGML, but is seems that with XHTML appendix C, HTML has officially cut > its ties to SGML?) Good question. Does anyone have a copy of Goldfarb who can answer this? > If comments is allowed before the doctype, it enables an ugly but useful > hack in IE: with the WHATWG doctype, a document is rendered in standard > mode, however if a comment precedes the doctype, the document is rendered > in quirks mode. This might be useful if legacy pages is upgraded to WF2. I guess we should just allow it (and not mention anything in the specs). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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