On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:40:18 +0100, Matthew Ratzloff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't care about DTD, but DOCTYPE is established, so it seems strange
to trash it in favor of something new when the benefit is questionable
(as
far as I can tell). It is also evident to me that there needs to be some
kind of versioning--consistent rendering shouldn't be a moving target.
There needs to be versioning? The web has done great so far without it...
I'm not sure I really see the need.
If DTD is out, bring back the deprecated "version" attribute that it
replaced. Assuming there is only one version of HTML 5.0, the following
would work:
<html version="5.0" mode="strict" encoding="UTF-8" lang="en-US">
...
</html>
All attributes optional, obviously.
What exactly would this help with? (I might be convinced that a
meaningless version="" attribute is useful for conformance checkers. To
make conformance not a moving target. However, given that other
interpreting software, such as web browsers, do change, maybe conformance
should too.)
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Anne van Kesteren
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