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Bug 18079 - Consider renaming DOCTYPE to doctype, I think it reads better.
Summary: Consider renaming DOCTYPE to doctype, I think it reads better.
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: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: editorial
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-07-18 17:12 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-14 10:02 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-18 17:12:16 UTC
This was was cloned from bug 16196 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-03-02 11:16:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-03-02 11:16:40 +0000 
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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/syntax.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#syntax-doctype
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#syntax-doctype

Comment:
Consider renaming DOCTYPE to doctype, I think it reads better.

Posted from: 85.227.157.105 by simonp@opera.com
User agent: Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7.2; U; en) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.61
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 #1   Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu                             2012-03-02 11:41:47 +0000 
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I don't.
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Comment 1 Robin Berjon 2012-09-14 10:02:51 UTC
Same decision as https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16196.

I do indeed wish we had RESOLVED BIKESHED :)