- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:53:02 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Simon Pieters wrote: > > Since HTML5 won't be an SGML application, the DOCTYPE could be shortened down > to this: > > |<!DOCTYPE html> Agreed. Done. > To specify the version, we could reuse the version attribute: > > |<html version="5.0"> It's not clear to me what benefit we derive from this. > XML documents could use the same DOCTYPE (if desired) since it is > wellformed. It seems preferable for them to use no DOCTYPE at all. > [2] The html start tag would look like: > > |<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" version="5.0"> > > What do you think? I don't see any reason to include the version="" attribute, but other than that I agree. Thanks, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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