On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at 15:02 , Ian Hickson wrote: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Johan Sundström wrote: > > That said, I would still much enjoy a future where > > javascript:alert(document.doctype) would tell you something rich about > > the page that we today need deep knowledge of document.compatMode and/or > > combinations of XMLSerializer and parsers, or deep study of DocumentType > > refdocs to tease out. > > Can you elaborate on that?
Sure – rich as in not "[object DocumentType]", but …on apple.com: <!DOCTYPE html> …on roxen.com: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> …on the Firefox default homepage: <!DOCTYPE html [ <!ENTITY % htmlDTD PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> %htmlDTD; <!ENTITY % globalDTD SYSTEM "chrome://global/locale/global.dtd"> %globalDTD; <!ENTITY % aboutHomeDTD SYSTEM "chrome://browser/locale/aboutHome.dtd"> %aboutHomeDTD; <!ENTITY % syncBrandDTD SYSTEM "chrome://browser/locale/syncBrand.dtd"> %syncBrandDTD; <!-- These strings are used in the about:home page --> <!ENTITY abouthome.pageTitle "&brandFullName; Start Page"> <!ENTITY abouthome.searchEngineButton.label "Search"> <!-- LOCALIZATION NOTE (abouthome.defaultSnippet1.v1): text in <a/> will be linked to the Firefox features page on mozilla.com --> <!ENTITY abouthome.defaultSnippet1.v1 "Thanks for choosing Firefox! To get the most out of your browser, learn more about the <a>latest features</a>."> <!-- LOCALIZATION NOTE (abouthome.defaultSnippet2.v1): text in <a/> will be linked to the featured add-ons on addons.mozilla.org --> <!ENTITY abouthome.defaultSnippet2.v1 "It's easy to customize your Firefox exactly the way you want it. <a>Choose from thousands of add-ons</a>."> <!ENTITY abouthome.bookmarksButton.label "Bookmarks"> <!ENTITY abouthome.historyButton.label "History"> <!ENTITY abouthome.settingsButton.label "Settings"> <!ENTITY abouthome.addonsButton.label "Add-ons"> <!ENTITY abouthome.appsButton.label "Marketplace"> <!ENTITY abouthome.downloadsButton.label "Downloads"> <!ENTITY abouthome.syncButton.label "&syncBrand.shortName.label;"> <!ENTITY % browserDTD SYSTEM "chrome://browser/locale/browser.dtd" > %browserDTD; ]> -- / Johan Sundström, http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/
