- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:59:42 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, L. David Baron wrote: > > 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. Okie dokie. Seems like nothing needs to be added to the WF2 spec then. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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