- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:09:18 +0100
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
* David Woolley wrote: >>>(Valid HTML 2 documents (which don't need <!DOCTYPE....) can start with >>><TITLE>; this can also be the first tag agfter the <!DOCTYPE directive >>>for HTML 4.01 documents.) >> >> I don't know what a "Valid HTML 2 document" is, but documents conforming >> to RFC 1866 (HTML 2.0) must start with a document type declaration. > >Quoting said document: > > NOTE - If the body of a `text/html' message entity does not begin > with a document type declaration, an HTML user agent should infer > the above document type declaration. > >This is what makes documents without a DOCTYPE HTML 2.0. My point is that if it does not have a document type declaration, it ain't HTML 2.0 and is thus most likely not "Valid HTML 2.0" as opposed to your claim.
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