- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 15:26:33 +0300
On Aug 22, 2004, at 14:15, Ian Hickson wrote: > 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? I don't own a copy of The Handbook. I use the one in the HUT library when I need it. Thanks to the ISO pricing policy, no one owns (a copy of :-) the spec. Comments are allowed: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/SGML/productions.html#prod8 IIRC, rickg's sniffing code didn't account for comments and dbaron specifically allowed them due to SGML when he rewrote the code. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://iki.fi/hsivonen/
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