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Zirro
on Nov 24, 2011
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Reasons to Use HTML5
Nope, HTML(5) is flexible. You could use <!dOcTyPe HtMl> if you feel like getting funky :-)
billpatrianakos
on Nov 24, 2011
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Cool, thank you! So was it just a personal choice in HTML5 BP or was there a reason behind it?
rimantas
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Uppercase DOCTYPE is for XHTML5 (HTML5 XML serialization). Basically XML requires to have DOCTYPE in uppercase and html in lowercase. By writing it this way you will conform to both cases. See also
http://www.w3.org/TR/html-polyglot/#doctype
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