Re: Table Validation

On 27.02.01 at 13:33, Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Nick Kew wrote:
>
>>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."

IIRC, we've rehashed this a couple of times and the conclusion was that
HTML 2.0 is the _only_ version of HTML that makes the DOCTYPE declaration
optional and thus, if you have something that is "HTML", but which doesn't
include a DOCTYPE declaration, it is, ipso facto, HTML 2.0.

Received on Tuesday, 6 March 2001 01:41:03 UTC