[whatwg] Editorial: 1.9 DOCTYPE HTML

Thu Aug 6 11:59:35 PDT 2009

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Elliotte Rusty Harold<elharo at ibiblio.org> wrote:
> Section 1.9 uses this DOCTYPE twice:
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML>
>
> Unless the intention is to demonstrate case-insensisitivity, which
> doesn't seem to be the case since that's not otherwise mentioned in
> this section, I think this should be:
>
> <!DOCTYPE html>
>
> as section 4.2 of the FAQ recommends.

Ian has said before that he purposely writes examples in multiple
styles just to ensure that the spec isn't construed as defining a
single 'correct' style through them.

~TJ