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Bug 16591 - Suggestion: addition of 5 to doctype tag. ie, <!DOCTYPE html5>, for future proofing in case, for example, html6 conflicts with html5. Browsers seeing <!DOCTYPE html> or no doctype (for the most basic, valid html) should just assume the latest html standar
Summary: Suggestion: addition of 5 to doctype tag. ie, <!DOCTYPE html5>, for future pr...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-03-31 17:09 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-05-14 17:07 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-03-31 17:09:51 UTC 
Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
Suggestion: addition of 5 to doctype tag. ie, <!DOCTYPE html5>, for future
proofing in case, for example, html6 conflicts with html5. Browsers seeing
<!DOCTYPE html> or no doctype (for the most basic, valid html) should just
assume the latest html standard for simple pages.

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Comment 1 Ms2ger 2012-05-14 17:07:25 UTC 
Been discussed to death already.