[whatwg] Using the HTML5 DOCTYPE as a new quirksmode switch

Tue Mar 13 08:55:54 PDT 2007

On 13/03/2007 16:51, Colin Lieberman wrote:
> At the risk of killing beautiful simplicity, can we consider amending 
> this to
> 
> <!DOCTYPE html5>
> 
> or something similar? The omission of a version number feels like 
> playing with fire to me.

Hum to say the least. One of the goals of the WHAT-WG is the
preservation of backwards compatibility, right ?

</Daniel>