- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:45:59 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Jorgen Horstink wrote: > > As far as I understand it, the new DOCTYPE switch is meant to 'tell' to > browser the document follows the HTML5 specification. No, the new DOCTYPE is merely meant to trigger standards mode (as opposed to quirks mode). > HTML5 is set up to be backwards compatible with HTML4 documents. The > opposite does not hold. There must be at least one new DOCTYPE to 'tell' > the browser HTML5 is being served. No, the opposite does in fact hold. It shouldn't matter whether the document is HTML5 or HTML4 or earlier; they all have the same processing rules, given by the HTML5 spec. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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