Bill Braun wrote: > For starters...http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_doctype.asp.
That particular page does not discuss the rendering differences at all, just the document type declarations (in a misleading way, typical of w3schools pages). The question was: >> can someone point me to a reference about rendering differences >> between strict and transitional doctype? There is no reference. Browser vendors refuse to publish accurate documentation of "quirks" mode rendering, on the (somewhat understandable) grounds that if it were documented, authors would start relying on it. Besides, strict vs. transitional is not crucial. You get "standards mode" by using the Transitional doctype too, provided that you include the specific URL mentioned in HTML specifications. The most detailed general description that I know of is my own http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/quirks-mode.html and the main point is that "standards" vs. "quirks" mode can really make a huge difference (thought for many documents, there is no difference). >> or: what would you expect? I would expect differences in your case, too. The crucial questions are, in my opinion, a) whether the differences in rendering really matter (and it's not just a matter of an obsession of having the same rendering in all browsers) b) whether we regard very old browsers, incapable of "standards" mode even in its primitive form, as relevant to authoring - in particular, how many IE 4 and IE 5 installations are there? If you check that your page, with a document type declaration that triggers "standards" mode, works acceptably on Firefox 2+ and IE 6+, for example, does it really matter what it would look like in "quirks" mode, which basically simulates IE 5 and older? -- 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/
