Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: > The DOCTYPE trigger a non-standardised switch, which affects both HTML > and CSS (and, to a lesser extent, DOM). It is a de-facto standard > implemented very, very, very similarly across all major browsers.
What? Are you kidding? Or do you mean the "de-facto standard" on making a choice between modes called "quirks mode" or "standards mode"? That's something that major browsers sort-of roughly agree, loosely speaking. The _meanings_ of these modes are, however, undocumented (or with sketchy descriptions that do not actually describe most of the features) and widely diverging. Create an "HTML" document without a doctype declaration, throw it at IE 6, IE 7, Firefox, and Opera (to consider just some common browsers), and observe quite different behaviors. To prove that I'm wrong, please provide a description of what happens in "quirks" mode. That is, a document that tells how the browsers behave in that mode. Hint: You won't find one; the best starting point is probably my document http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/quirks-mode.html and it certainly does not describe any de facto standard or even reasonably consistent browser behavior (because there is no such thing). Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca") http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
