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Re: X-UA-Compatible causes extraneous errors in the validator for an html5 page

From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 18:56:53 +0100
Message-ID: <CAEhSh3ficiP5JVVxcYTY+_5_ABLNhwf7GDUOB78dzAKZdPhBSw@mail.gmail.com>
To: "Robert K. Foster" <rkfoster@thewindjammer.com>
Cc: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>, www-validator@w3.org 
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Robert K. Foster
<rkfoster@thewindjammer.com> wrote:
> But I am not aware of another way currently to make html5
> compatible with older browsers.

Note X-UA-Compatible does not make "HTML5 compatible with older
browsers"; it's mostly used to force newer versions of IE to pretend
to act like older versions.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Received on Monday, 9 April 2012 17:57:42 UTC

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