[Typo3-dev] Doctype - XML Prolog

[Gordon Mickel]

Hi

I have a small feature request:

It would be great if there was an option for leaving the xml prolog 
(<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>) out of the document header.

Unfortunately the prolog causes problems with many browsers, the most 
severe possibly being that it forces IE into it's quirky box model 
rendering mode. You can find an exact list of the browser compliancy 
issues here:

http://www.webstandards.org/learn/reference/prolog_problems.html

Luckily the xml prolog is only recommended and not required by the W3C 
(see http://tantek.com/XHTML/Test/minimal.html#withorwithoutxmlprolog ) 
so leaving it out still leaves our html pages fully specs-compliant.

Would be great if you could consider this.
regards
Gordon