Bug 657 – legacy doctype causes validation error

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Bug 657 - legacy doctype causes validation error


Summary:	legacy doctype causes validation error

Status:	NEW

Product:	Validator.nu
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	HTML parser
Version:	HEAD
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	P2 normal
Assigned To:	Nobody

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Reported:	2009-09-25 13:13 CEST by Julian Reschke
Modified:	2009-11-23 17:17 CET (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Julian Reschke 2009-09-25 13:13:23 CEST

Comment 1 Julian Reschke 2009-09-25 13:14:30 CEST

Message:

-- snip --
Error: Legacy doctype. Expected e.g. <!DOCTYPE html>.

From line 1, column 1; to line 1, column 44

<!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM "about:legacy-compat">↩<html
-- snip --

Comment 2 Simon Pieters 2009-09-25 13:28:43 CEST

Doesn't happen when setting the parser to "HTML5".

Comment 3 Julian Reschke 2009-09-25 13:33:56 CEST

(In reply to comment #2)
> Doesn't happen when setting the parser to "HTML5".

Good catch.

Still not sure why it's an error when using automatic parser detection.