Re: HTML5 Doctype - too unspecific?

> So what if HTML6 will eventually come up? How are validators supposed to
> behave?
>
> Shouldn't the HTML5 doctype tag contain a simple version information at
> least?

Not sure whether anyone compiled a standard answer to this (it has
come up a number of times), but check the WHATWG FAQ at
<http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ> (look for DOCTYPE and versions) and
what Ian wrote in this post about a living standard, as opposed to a
snapshot-based (versioned) system:
<https://plus.google.com/107429617152575897589/posts/NZBJe6Jjt1f>.

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Jens O. Meiert
http://meiert.com/en/

Received on Thursday, 26 September 2013 16:57:17 UTC