- From: Mihai Sucan <mihai.sucan@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:03:41 +0200
Le Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:04:39 +0200, Colin Lieberman <colin at fontshop.com> a ?crit: > I'm not sure how this is a backwards compatibility issue. My > understanding is that user agents aren't actually parsing information > from the doctype, just checking for its existence. The only applications > that should break are validators, which would need to be updated anyway. > > I ran some quick (and highly unscientific tests) on ff1.5 and ie7 (both > pc) with a real html 4 doctype, <!DOCTYPE html>, and <!DOCTYPE html5> > (both with and without a space before the 5), and nothing broke in terms > of rendering or function. > > Please let me know if there's something I'm missing here. > > Thanks, > Colin Lieberman You can't simply invent any DOCTYPE definition, while having it backwards compatible. Here's a tutorial about DTD, which also explains the DOCTYPE line: http://www.w3schools.com/dtd/dtd_intro.asp Specifically: <!DOCTYPE root-element [element-declarations]> The root element in HTML5 is "html", not "html5". -- http://www.robodesign.ro ROBO Design - We bring you the future
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