[whatwg] <!doctypehtml> triggers standards mode
Simon Pieters
zcorpan at hotmail.com
Fri Nov 11 17:01:36 PST 2005
Hi,
Just an observation. I discovered that "<!doctypehtml>" triggers standards
mode in Mozilla, IE6 and Opera. SGML required whitespace between the
tokens[1] but browsers seem to recognize the tokens even without
whitespace[2]. For instance,
<!doctypehtmlpublic"-//W3C//DTD HTML
4.01//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
triggers standards mode, while
<!doctypehtmlpublic"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
triggers quirks mode.
[1] http://xml.coverpages.org/sgmlsyn/sgmlsyn.htm#P110
[2] http://zcorpan.1go.dk/test/html/doctype/
Regards,
Simon Pieters
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