12648 2011-05-12 04:40:30 +0000 Use of comments and space characters before DOCTYPE throws many versions of IE to Quirks Mode, so either they should be disallowed, or the note at the start of 11.1.1 should be modified. The note now claims that the inclusion of DOCTYPE "ensures that the 2011-08-04 05:15:36 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG LC1 HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED DUPLICATE 12072 http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#writing P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian julian.reschke mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking xn--mlform-iua public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 48485 0 contributor 2011-05-12 04:40:30 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/syntax.html Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#writing Comment: Use of comments and space characters before DOCTYPE throws many versions of IE to Quirks Mode, so either they should be disallowed, or the note at the start of 11.1.1 should be modified. The note now claims that the inclusion of DOCTYPE "ensures that the browser makes a best-effort attempt at following the relevant specifications". The DOCTYPE does not do that, if it is preceded by comments or space characters. Posted from: 88.114.29.18 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1 48489 1 xn--mlform-iua 2011-05-12 16:56:43 +0000 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 12072 *** 53604 2 mike 2011-08-04 05:15:36 +0000 mass-move component to LC1