Re: [whatwg] [html5] tags, elements and generated DOM

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 17:21:23 -0700 

Olav Junker Kjær wrote:

Jim Ley wrote:

Would a version parameter not be more appropriate, simpler, less
confusing to users, easier to parse, easier to understand, doesn't
confuse users into thinking that it's really an application of SGML. Doesn't cause problems for legacy user agents like the HTML Validator
etc. etc.


Actually, the HTML element has a (deprecated!) version attribute, which could be used for this purpose. I agree it feels cleaner than using the doctype syntax.

OTOH authors are going to use doctypes for the forseeable future anyway, since they want to trigger standards compliant mode in browsers, so we might as well put the doctype to some use.

Wouldn't authors need to use an HTML4 or an XHTML doctype specifically to trigger the standards mode in IE6? In that case, specifying a doctype of our own would be counter-productive to the goal of compatibility with IE6.

Perhaps we need to specify that any DOCTYPE will be ignored when there is an <html version="5.0"> present.
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Leons Petrazickis

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