- From: Olav Junker Kjær <olav@olav.dk>
- Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 13:46:33 +0200
Jim Ley wrote: > Would a version parameter not be more appropriate, simpler, less > confusing to users, easier to parse, easier to understand, doesn't > confuse users into thinking that it's really an application of SGML. > Doesn't cause problems for legacy user agents like the HTML Validator > etc. etc. Actually, the HTML element has a (deprecated!) version attribute, which could be used for this purpose. I agree it feels cleaner than using the doctype syntax. OTOH authors are going to use doctypes for the forseeable future anyway, since they want to trigger standards compliant mode in browsers, so we might as well put the doctype to some use. regards Olav Junker Kj?r
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