title: DOCTYPE and Character Encoding not recognized by w3.org validator
body: <p>I've spend several hours trying to figure out what's wrong with the following html.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE=html&gt;
  
  &lt;html lang="en"&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta charset="utf-8"&gt;
  &lt;title&gt;Location Status&lt;/title&gt;
  &lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="location_status.css"&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="refresh" content="900"&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>validator w3.org tells me:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>The character encoding was not declared.</li>
  <li>End of file seen without seeing a doctype first. Expected <code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;</code></li>
  <li>Element head is missing a required instance of child element title</li>
  </ol>