- From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:18:36 +0200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
olivier Thereaux wrote: > * if the user selects "HTML5" in the doctype dropdown in the options > http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/#validate_by_uri+with_options Clear... > * if the document contains the pseudo doctype declaration > <!DOCTYPE html> -> http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#the-doctype ...ugh. I don't think that is a good idea, admittedly I have no better idea. Make sure to throw a syntax error with SGML and XML parsers when they meet this gibberish. > More triggers are likely to be added later. Much later, I'm not aware that they intend to get a proper MIME type for their document type, and besides the WHATWG work will still take years. > This integration should hopefully provide more visibility > to HTML5 Well, don't hand out "HTML5 valid" icons unless they are *dated*, e.g., based on the latest published W3C draft. Not on fast moving "editor's copy" drafts by the WHATWG consortium of the Web advertising and tracking industry. Frank
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