- From: Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:06:26 +0100
On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 23:10 +0200, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: > Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at MIT.EDU> schrieb am Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:43:26 > -0400: > > > On 10/16/11 2:15 PM, Francis Boumphrey wrote: > > > My point is, as the only possible use for a DOCTYPE declaration in > > > HTML (any version) is for including<!ENTITY>declarations > > > > And triggering browsers' standards mode, most importantly. > > > > > why bother with an DOCTYPE declaration at all. > > > > To trigger standards mode. > > It is also a nice ?magic string? to figure out if a file is a HTML file. > > > Cheers, Surely the <html> tag would do that? :p -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
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