- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:20:36 +0100
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:40:18 +0100, Matthew Ratzloff <matt at builtfromsource.com> wrote: > I don't care about DTD, but DOCTYPE is established, so it seems strange > to trash it in favor of something new when the benefit is questionable > (as > far as I can tell). It is also evident to me that there needs to be some > kind of versioning--consistent rendering shouldn't be a moving target. There needs to be versioning? The web has done great so far without it... I'm not sure I really see the need. > If DTD is out, bring back the deprecated "version" attribute that it > replaced. Assuming there is only one version of HTML 5.0, the following > would work: > > <html version="5.0" mode="strict" encoding="UTF-8" lang="en-US"> > ... > </html> > > All attributes optional, obviously. What exactly would this help with? (I might be convinced that a meaningless version="" attribute is useful for conformance checkers. To make conformance not a moving target. However, given that other interpreting software, such as web browsers, do change, maybe conformance should too.) -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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