[webkit-dev] HTML5 tokenizer landing soon

Simon Fraser simon.fraser at apple.com
Mon Jun 14 08:18:23 PDT 2010


On Jun 13, 2010, at 10:21 PM, Adam Barth wrote:

> People of WebKit,
> 
> As mentioned recently on webkit-dev, Eric, Tonyg, and I have been
> working on implementing the HTML5 parsing algorithm in WebKit:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org/msg11472.html
> 
> We're now ready to turn the new tokenization algorithm on by default
> (probably early this week).  The new code passes all the existing
> LayoutTests, with the exception of roughly 40 tests that "expect"
> behavior that violates the HTML5 specification [1].

Does the HTML5 tokenizer kick in for all HTML documents, or is there
some switching based on DOCTYPE?

Simon



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