On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jun 14, 2010, at 8:18 AM, Simon Fraser wrote:
>> On Jun 13, 2010, at 10:21 PM, Adam Barth wrote:
>>> As mentioned recently on webkit-dev, Eric, Tonyg, and I have been
>>> working on implementing the HTML5 parsing algorithm in WebKit:
>>>
>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg11472.html
>>>
>>> We're now ready to turn the new tokenization algorithm on by default
>>> (probably early this week).  The new code passes all the existing
>>> LayoutTests, with the exception of roughly 40 tests that "expect"
>>> behavior that violates the HTML5 specification [1].
>>
>> Does the HTML5 tokenizer kick in for all HTML documents, or is there
>> some switching based on DOCTYPE?
>
> There definitely shouldn't be switching based on doctype. The HTML5 parsing 
> algorithm is specifically designed to handle existing Web content.

That's correct, there is no switching based on doctype.  The switch is
based on a WebCore::Setting.  If you think about it, switching based
on doctype would be hard because you need to start parsing the
document to find the doctype...

Adam
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