- From: Michael A. Puls II <shadow2531@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:51:51 -0500
- To: "Leif Halvard Silli" <lhs@malform.no>, "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "Robin Berjon" <robin@berjon.com>, "Larry Masinter" <masinter@adobe.com>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>, jonas@sicking.cc
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:03:15 -0500, Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no> wrote: > So, to continue an earlier idea of mine [1], how about > > <!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM "about:dtd-compat"> That sounds the best. I like it. > Such a DTD would be easy to explain - e.g in Wikipedia, which allready > has an article about DOCTYPES, including the "DTD-less" HTML 5 doctype > [2]. The new doctype of HTML 5 is one of the most striking things about > it - many will notice it. And it is easy to explain that some old tools > expect old doctype syntax, and that, for them, the HTML 5 specification > has this SYSTEM variant of the DOCTYPE, with an about:URI in order to > formally fulfill the DOCTYPE syntax. > > [1] http://www.w3.org/mid/4970CF6D.5000302@malform.no > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctype -- Michael
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