Re: [whatwg] Proposal for window.DocumentType.prototype.toString from Ian Hickson on 2012-10-31 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from October 2012)

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:02:57 +0000 (UTC)
To: Johan Sundström <oyasumi@gmail.com>
Cc: whatwg@whatwg.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1210312202460.5442@ps20323.dreamhostps.com>

On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Johan Sundström wrote:
> 
> That said, I would still much enjoy a future where 
> javascript:alert(document.doctype) would tell you something rich about 
> the page that we today need deep knowledge of document.compatMode and/or 
> combinations of XMLSerializer and parsers, or deep study of DocumentType 
> refdocs to tease out.

Can you elaborate on that?

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