HTML <! Doctype html public "">

Question

One of the new doctype declarations may be indicated as:

<!doctype html>

But recently, I came across one that was slightly different (see source at http://html5boilerplate.com/ ):

<!doctype html public "">

But I could not understand what this public part is for?

Thank.

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Dmitry F Oct 20 '11 at 2:23

3 answers

this is mentioned in the html5boilerplate changelog, doctype search on the page.

This was done to disable dtd warnings in an IDE such as eclipse.

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Moin Zaman 20 . '11 2:27

IE10 needs PUBLIC ""to properly handle the page as HTML 5 - at least in Windows 7.

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Tim Lewis Mar 09 '13 at 23:15

Andrew · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-20T02:30:14+0000

You missed one important symbol

<!doctype html public "✰">

Inside the quotation marks there is a star symbol. They like to post it everywhere. Its valid, but not any useful: P