- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:32:53 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
Quoting "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>: > Until the introduction of HTML5, DOCTYPEs have -- in the > main -- been mere eye-candy at the start of a putative > HTML document. With the introduction of HTML5, the > DOCTYPE plays a vital role in determining the processing > model for HTML documents. Mere eye-candy for most cases, perhaps, but doctype switching has certainly been one of the main factors that have allowed modern css layouts etc to be used in an almost sane way in modern browsers, without breaking support for the display of legacy (usually doctype-less) sites. P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ______________________________________________________________ Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________ Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________
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