- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:39:13 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Dave Hodder wrote: > > Section 1.6 of the draft mentions use of the DOCTYPE <!DOCTYPE html > PUBLIC "-//WHATWG//NONSGML HTML5//EN">. Yeah -- just to explain where that came from: "NONSGML" is because we don't have a DTD yet, and "HTML5" is mostly a joke. We'll be revisiting the whole subject later, when the spec is stable enough to make a DTD. For now there is this temporary FPI just so people who want to write Web Forms stuff can do so without triggering quirks mode in modern browsers (which they would without a DOCTYPE) and without claiming to use a DTD that is not going to validate (which they would if they used, say, the HTML4 DOCTYPE). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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