Paul Novitski wrote:
My intuition tells me that if custom DTDs proliferate then web standards will lose some of the commonality that holds them together (however shakily) today.
Agreed. Also, on the subject of custom DTDs and target attributes: what always strikes me is that doing this currently works because browsers still have the code built-in to handle the target attribute. The DTD itself does not contain behaviour information for the browser, but merely makes it "legal" again to use this attribte to leverage functionality which is still present in the browser. *If* browsers ditched the code to natively handle the target attribute, even a custom DTD would not trigger the behaviour.
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