[whatwg] [html5] tags, elements and generated DOM
Anne van Kesteren
fora at annevankesteren.nl
Thu Apr 7 04:01:02 PDT 2005
Jim Ley wrote:
>>> Entities. Or is that problem going to be solved by: "use UTF-8"?
>>> (Which would be something I wouldn't disagree with, although for
>>> mathematical symbols it might be a pain to enter them.)
>>
>> In my world that is solved by no longer claiming that HTML is an
>> SGML application.
>
> So please state that clearly in the specification.
>
> Can you also explain the point of the <!DOCTYPE ... gibberish that
> the specs require at the top of documents? What are they doing,
> please remove them, they serve no purpose whatsoever. Or if they do
> serve a purpose, document what the purpose is.
You should know the purpose I guess. (Standards mode.) I agree that it
should be documentated.
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Anne van Kesteren
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