Re: <html> change

On 7 Aug 2007, at 20:37, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Regarding the xmlns attribute, it hardly has any impact on any  
> browser, indexing robot, or other important software on the Web. So  
> you can choose to add it to get a clean validation report (why?) or  
> to ignore the validator's messages about it. Adding it is  
> practically relevant only if you wish to be prepared to namespace- 
> aware XML processors playing with your documents.

Last time I checked, Firefox, at least, was a namespace-aware XML  
processor and didn't treat an XHTML document with no namespace as  
XHTML given an XML media type.

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Received on Wednesday, 8 August 2007 08:08:33 UTC