- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:22:23 +0300
- To: "Ian Stuart" <Ian.Stuart@ed.ac.uk>, <www-validator@w3.org>
Ian Stuart wrote: > For (2), I just always have > > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> > > as "the magic incantation" as the html element The attribute is required by XHTML specifications, so it would be absurd to use XHTML without using that attribute. > (likewise, I *remove* the > > xml:lang="en" lang="en" > > attribute from the same element, as they throw IE6 into "quirks mode" Huh? Pardon? Can you prove it? I have never heard of anything like that, and it would be most weird. Quirks mode is weird in itself, but triggering it is based on doctype declaration issues. (The xml:lang and lang attributes are not required by the formal syntax, but they are required by W3C WAI recommendations.) Yucca
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