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 <fa...@google.com> wrote: > 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 discussion. > > --j > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Chirag Shah <chiragsh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > It looks like there's a discrepancy in which HTML doctype is used > > between the Java and PHP gadget renderers. > > > > GadgetHtmlRenderer.php says that "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD > > HTML 4.01//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd\";>" should be > > used when "quirks = false or empty in the view." > > > > The Java Gadget renderer will not set a default doctype if it can't > > find one. Shouldn't both systems explicitly set a doctype if it's not > > provided? > > >
