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Use lowercase doctype

See original GitHub issue

Currently, the useShortDoctype option rewrites doctypes to uppercase

HTML5 Boilerplate uses lowercase doctype for several years already, there’s not much complaints other than incompatibility with XHTML

https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/issues/1522

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Created 6 years ago
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XhmikosRcommented, Jul 8, 2018

Hey, it’s no my word, it’s the community’s word 😉 You can never beat such extended testing.

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alexlamslcommented, Jul 8, 2018

@XhmikosR they mentioned something along the lines of XHTML5

@DamonHD thanks for the observation and the point about optional tags

I was worried about those enterprisy (read: Java) libraries getting upset about conformance issues, but you guys have successfully convinced me otherwise.

Will put that PR together when I get home.

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