On Sunday 2004-08-22 11:15 +0000, 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 had a copy of Goldfarb in front of me (borrowed from a library) when I wrote the DOCTYPE parsing code currently used in Mozilla. I wrote code that skips comments and processing instructions (although the processing-instruction skipping code isn't quite right), so IIRC they are allowed. -David -- L. David Baron <URL: http://dbaron.org/ > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20040822/3386faa5/attachment.pgp>Received on Sunday, 22 August 2004 15:56:15 UTC
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