Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Eric Bednarz Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: multi browser forms issue Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:58:31 +0100 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <6b248eda-8b2d-4618-af26-d3983cdcdbb1@u10g2000prl.googlegroups.com> <1924605.C0IIP4dKs2@PointedEars.de> Reply-To: ebednarz@gmx.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net HOeI7m9sHi+abcI0vX4QZw1PLOoX+Vek6JJXHGOi8/UcKuOrob Cancel-Lock: sha1:MnXAdSBSZGKQuDPPPaT2huCAwGw= sha1:1UAuPQ5MphNlsIyWToNTrx4UgzM= X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.javascript:8105 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn writes: > Eric Bednarz wrote: > >> David Mark writes: >>>> >>> Why are you using HTML5? >> >> That’s not ‘using HTML5’, that’s choosing a rendering mode in a mnemonic >> fashion, and without the cargo cult parts that do nothing. > > Incorrect. There is a difference in rendering between using a DOCTYPE > declaration without a public identifier (as here), a DOCTYPE declaration > containing only a public identifier, and a DOCTYPE declaration containing > both a public and a system identifier. “You should have provided some proof of your assertion, such as” an example of an external identifier that is expected to set rendering to ‘standards compatibility’ (e.g. system and public identifier for HTML 4.01) and results in a different ‘standards compatibility’ than your “proper, if colloquial, synonym” for HTML5 does.