> David Hucklesby wrote:
>>>Sadly, I could not get IE to recognize the white-space: pre;
....
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 03:05:04 +0100, Nick Fitzsimons replied:

> Microsoft's own documentation [1] states that:
> 
> "pre: Line breaks and other whitespace are preserved. This possible
> value is supported in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and later when the
> !DOCTYPE declaration specifies standards-compliant mode."
> 
> As the page you link to has a comment at the top for the precise 
> purpose of throwing IE 6 into quirks mode, it's not going to work for 
> you.

Ahh! Thanks for the enlightenment, Nick.

> I've never found any good reason to deliberately throw IE into quirks
> mode. I can always get IE to bend to my will by using conditional
> comments.

Well, my "good reason" is laziness. I do give IE 5/6 Windows an extra 
stylesheet, I just did not want to do separate ones for IE5 and IE6.
Until a short while ago I was making separate style sheets for IE 5 Mac, 
IE 5.01 Win, IE 5.5 Win, and IE 6 Win, with possible variants for print 
styles as well. I got fed up with all that extra work for one company's 
browser, and hit on the idea of using quirks mode.

I wonder if IE 7 will behave like IE 5 with a comment before the DOCTYPE?

Cordially,
David
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David Hucklesby, on 4/24/2006
<http://www.hucklesby.com/>
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