[whatwg] Doctype conformance requirements

Sun May 7 04:59:08 PDT 2006

Hi,

The conformance requirements section[1] states that:

>HTML documents that use the new features described in this specification 
>and that are
>served over the wire (e.g. by HTTP) must be sent as text/html and must 
>start with the
>following DOCTYPE: <!DOCTYPE html>.

So, if I read this correctly, HTML documents that aren't served over the 
wire need not have a doctype?

If it was intended that all HTML documents must have a doctype, then I 
suggest something along the following lines instead:

   HTML documents that use the new features described in this specification 
must start with
   the following DOCTYPE: <!DOCTYPE html>. Such documents that are served 
over the
   wire (e.g. by HTTP) must be sent as text/html.

[1] http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#conformance

Regards,
Simon Pieters