- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:33:11 -0500 (EST)
- To: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Nick Kew wrote: > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Terje Bless wrote: > > > Once the Validators > > make judgement calls about what DTD you /really/ meant, it's no longer a > > validator but rather a mere "lint". > > Ah, but all the validators do exactly that, every time they encounter > a document lacking a DOCTYPE declaration. Last time I checked, the > correct behaviour here is to validate against HTML 2.0, but none of > them do that. I don't think that is correct. The HTML 2.0 standard says [1] "To identify information as an HTML document conforming to this specification, each document must start with one of the following document type declarations." [1] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_3.html#SEC3.3 -- Liam Quinn
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