55263 - [DOCTYPE] all DOCTYPEs with a URI should trigger strict layout mode

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P3)

Description

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Proposal for DOCTYPE handling hived off from bug 42525; see that bug for 
discussion and background.

(I currently have no position on this proposal; I'm opening this bug report so 
discussion can take place within this report.)

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

*** Bug 55264 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Reassigned to Rickg/Parser. Nominating for rtm, like bug 42525.

Comment 3

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Marking [DOCTYPE] for easy searching.

Comment 4

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

->platform all,all

Comment 5

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

[rtm-]. The proposal may well have been meritorious, but unfortunately, no one
inside or outside of Netscape was able to do sufficient analysis of the
potential of this bug to cause regressions in time for us to commit this and
implement and accept a patch in time for RTM. Marking Future. Some will argue
that if we don't do this for RTM, we can't do it ever, but actually that's not
necessarily true. Depending upon the speed of market uptake of Netscape 6, the
length of time before the first point release, and further analysis of how many
existing web pages actually use explicit URIs and would be affected by a
change either way, it may still make sense to consider this for the first point
release.

Comment 6

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Is it know how Mozilla behaves for XHTML served as text/html?

Comment 7

[bsharma]

updated qa contact.

Comment 8

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

I propose that we WONTFIX this bug.

Comment 9

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Agreed.  It would not be possible to do this considering existing pages on the web.