- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:40:01 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Spartanicus wrote: > > "Simon Pieters" <zcorpan at hotmail.com> wrote: > > >The parsing section says that a comment before the doctype may trigger > >quirks mode. > > I'm assuming that this comment merely documents IE's current behaviour. > Please ignore my other comment if I'm wrong. > > >Therefore I think the syntax section shouldn't allow comments > >before the doctype (only space characters). > > There are valid reasons to kick IE into quirks mode whilst triggering > "standards mode" in other browsers. There is existing content on the web > that intentionally does this. Why would you want to deny an author who > fully understands the issues from doing this? Once browsers implement HTML5, there won't be a way to trigger quirks in one browser and not another. We want all HTML5 documents to trigger standards mode. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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