[whatwg] Bug in "Before DOCTYPE name state"?

Simon Pieters zcorpan at hotmail.com
Thu Dec 21 12:52:14 PST 2006


Hi,

From: "Thomas Broyer" <t.broyer at gmail.com>
>Additional note: as I read this, if the DOCTYPE was previously marked
>as being "in error", it should then be rolled back to being "correct"
>if the DOCTYPE name is "HTML": <!DOCTYPEHTML> would *not* be marked
>"in error".

Correct.

>That's probably not what's intended.

It is intended. Browsers trigger standards mode for <!doctypehtml>. It does, 
however, generate a parse error, but the doctype itself is not "in error".

>...

Regards,
Simon Pieters

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