On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
The switch to <!DOCTYPE html> should be reverted immediately. If we want to switch to this DOCTYPE, we need to plan and budget for the front-end development that will be necessary to support this change.
It *was* reverted, it hasn't been deployed again since.
How exactly was the conclusion reached that this change would only affect screen-scraping tools?
It was the only noticed/complained about failure when we did enable it. That doesn't mean it can't/won't cause other things to break as well.
-Chad