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1. tekk (tekk@social.tekk.in)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 10:02:52 EST tekk
   Quick shower thought for everyone: the HTML doctype is useless. The doctype is unversioned and so you can never use it to say "this html is invalid" because it may just be a newer 'version' than you implement.
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 11:00:16 EST lnxw48a1

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      @tekk Pre-HTML5 doctypes were versioned. (For example, see HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0.) But since HTML5 is just "Guess Your Best" tag soup anyway, you'd probably have your user-agent just render what it understands and ignore what it doesn't.
      1. tekk (tekk@social.tekk.in)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 11:15:08 EST tekk

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         @lnxw48a1 yeah, that was what I was getting at. There's no reason for requiring a doctype now when it's meaningless