- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:31:35 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > > > If so, I would answer "no". But I don't have a strong opinion. What's > > the advantage either way? > > The advantage of allowing case-insensitivity and white space variance is > that it would be more uniform with HTML4 doctypes. That is, it would be > easier to write software that deals with both. You seem to be mixing authoring requirements and implementation requirements. The implementation requirements for handling <!doctype> lines in HTML5 will almost certainly be identical to those for treating comments (I haven't really thought about it yet). > > (I'd rather address this in WA1 than WF2, anyway.) > > I understand, but WF2 is an extension to HTML4, so it is reasonable to > expect that white space and case insensitivity is allowed where it is > allowed in HTML4. Well again it depends if you are asking about authoring or implementation requirements. For implementations there are no requirements here. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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