- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 16:31:02 -0500 (EST)
- To: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
- cc: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Terje Bless wrote: > 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 This assertion is frequently made, but the quotation that I cited proves the assertion wrong. -- Liam Quinn
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