Its still not fixed? What is the bug #?

basic

Charley Manske wrote:

> We always intended to do this, but it's out of our (composer team's) 
> control -- we use whatever DTDs the layout engine supports, and right 
> now that is somewhat limited. We do have a bug on supporting "strict" 
> vs. "transitional" versions of the 4.0 DTD.
> Charley
> 
> David Balch wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I believe that a useful feature for composer would be being able to 
>> choose
>> the doctype a page uses. I imagine it working as a dialog box with 
>> options
>> for format, version, strict/quirks - with descriptions to guide the 
>> user to
>> choosing the right format for them. After choosing (and maybe entering a
>> page title) a new composer window would open with the minimal valid 
>> document
>> for that format (and version).
>>
>> This would help increase the number of well formed and validating 
>> pages on
>> the net.
>>
>> I understand that composer will only produce valid markup (as it works by
>> DOM calls), so if there is a mechanism that checks user entered markup 
>> for
>> well-formedness (or preferably validity) the quality of webpage markup 
>> would
>> be increased (once moz gets widespread :)
>>
>> I have thought out a way of doing this, but am not really a programmer. I
>> will type up my ideas and post them, and have a look at XPFE when I get a
>> chance, but comments would be apprieciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> David Balch.
>>
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