- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:04:21 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > > > Can you also explain the point of the <!DOCTYPE ... gibberish that > > the specs require at the top of documents? What are they doing, > > please remove them, they serve no purpose whatsoever. Or if they do > > serve a purpose, document what the purpose is. > > You should know the purpose I guess. (Standards mode.) I agree that it > should be documentated. Actually come to think of it there is also a second purpose, namely, telling conformance checkers what version of the specification to check against. (Which I guess is basically the original purpose of the DOCTYPE.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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