Re: HTML doctype declaration for content

2009-10-28 Thread Kevin Brown
...@google.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 6:52 PM > To: shindig-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: HTML doctype declaration for content > > I seem to recall that the decision we made a while back was: > * if no doctype specified, let default reign (quirks, equivalent to > writin

Re: HTML doctype declaration for content

2009-10-28 Thread Kevin Marks
Mark Pilgrm wrote on this today in his usual engaging style: http://diveintohtml5.org/semantics.html he points to Henri Sivionen's detailed summary of browser behaviour: http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/ which delineates Quirks, Standards and 'Almost standards' mode - I think it is the latter tha

RE: HTML doctype declaration for content

2009-10-28 Thread Weygandt, Jon
the other threads of discussion. -Original Message- From: John Hjelmstad [mailto:fa...@google.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 6:52 PM To: shindig-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: HTML doctype declaration for content I seem to recall that the decision we made a while back was

Re: HTML doctype declaration for content

2009-10-27 Thread Louis Ryan
No thats about the size of it. There are too many quirks dependent gadgets already out there that even defaulting any doctype would break a large number of gadgets. On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:51 PM, John Hjelmstad wrote: > I seem to recall that the decision we made a while back was: > * if no doc

Re: HTML doctype declaration for content

2009-10-27 Thread Kevin Marks
I was advocating for the minimal HTML5 (extensively tested) doctype of by default with the other doctype strings inserted if need be. This is standards mode in all browsers. On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:51 PM, John Hjelmstad wrote: > I seem to recall that the decision we made a while back was: >

Re: HTML doctype declaration for content

2009-10-27 Thread John Hjelmstad
I seem to recall that the decision we made a while back was: * if no doctype specified, let default reign (quirks, equivalent to writing a doctype-free webpage) * else include doctype Take that with a grain of salt; it's been a while. Perhaps it's worth plumbing the archives for the longer discuss