Use lowercase doctype
See original GitHub issueCurrently, 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
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Hey, it’s no my word, it’s the community’s word 😉 You can never beat such extended testing.
@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.