Using <!DOCTYPE HTML> breaks Canvas in IE8
-------------------------- Hakan Kirkan IT Manager Dominor LLC / Miami http://dominor.com On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg <webdesig...@rarpsl.com > wrote: > At 16:57 -0400 on 08/01/2012, Tedd Sperling wrote about Re: [css-d] on > html and css versions: > > > What is wrong with using? >> >> <!DOCTYPE html> >> >> Sure it doesn't have a *real* DTD, but the W3C validator does somehow >> validate pages that have this DOCTYPE declaration, right? So, there must be >> some sort of *standards* it validates contents against, right? Where/what >> is that "DTD"? I think that would be an interesting thing to know. >> > > You are missing two points. > > First is that while browsers may not actually use the referenced DTD (the > http... clause), they do parse the HTML based on the DOCTYPE html PUBLIC... > clause and treat the HTML differently based on what you declare. > > Second is that just because the Validator approves of the supplied HTML5 > HTML, that does not mean that a browser will not choke on it or display the > code properly. This is not the case with pre-HTML5 DOCTYPES where if the > Validator approves of the code, the browser will correctly parse, > interpret, and display it. > > IOW: At the current time, <!DOCTYPE html> throws the browser into "tag > soup" mode where it tries to figure out what it is being supplied with as > opposed to knowing how to parse and handle it. > > ______________________________**______________________________**__________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/**mailman/listinfo/css-d<http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d> > List wiki/FAQ -- > http://css-discuss.incutio.**com/<http://css-discuss.incutio.com/> > List policies -- > http://css-discuss.org/**policies.html<http://css-discuss.org/policies.html> > Supported by evolt.org -- > http://www.evolt.org/help_**support_evolt/<http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/> > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
