Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Ingo Chao wrote: >> - content="IE=5" or content="IE=6" throws IE8b1 in quirksmode, even if >> the document has a standards Doctype. > > The real IE5 and IE6 have many differences in their support and > interpretation of CSS in quirks mode. Does IE8 reflect these differences > - as the meta-number suggests?
Don't know. My test was rough. > >> So the meta-switch is able to take precedence over the doctype switch >> in any case. > > Which is what has been indicated from the start, I think. It's just the > default for "no meta" that has changed. > > regards > Georg What was new to me was that the meta is able to trigger quirks mode. Thats probably not important, but I did not get this from Aaron Gustafson's beyonddoctype ALA article. Is there any technical paper out that informs about the meta and header? For example, I tested (mod_headers module of Apache required) .htaccess lines like Header set X-UA-Compatible IE=7 - but I don't even know if the syntax is correct.) Ingo -- http://www.satzansatz.de/css.html http://www.dolphinsback.com ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
