On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Aryeh
Gregor<[email protected]> wrote:
> I've discovered that changing the doctype does actually cause some
> slight rendering differences.  I don't think this will be a big delay,
> but I've disabled HTML 5 doctypes by default (in r53137) until I can
> figure out the issue and resolve it.

Issue fixed in r53141, and $wgHtml5 re-enabled by default in r53142.
However, it turns out browsers don't treat the doctypes *exactly* the
same, only *almost* exactly (as that issue demonstrated).  The HTML 5
doctype triggers slightly more standards-compliant behavior for recent
major browsers in some details of CSS -- which is ultimately good, but
we need to be on the lookout for anything it breaks.  This page has
more info on doctype switches in browsers:

http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/

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