The Debian Web pages all use the document type declaration '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">,' which, while not invalid, is considered bad form and fails to trigger standards compliance mode in Internet Explorer and Mozilla (Gecko, really) derivatives. I have attached a patch that modifies the DOCTYPE to include the actual DTD location.
For more information regarding DTD switching and quirks mode, see the articles "Fix Your Site with the Right DOCTYPE!" <URI:http://www.alistapart.com/articles/doctype/> and "Mozilla's Quirks Mode" <URI:http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/>.
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Index: english/template/debian/header.wml
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RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/template/debian/header.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.7 header.wml
--- english/template/debian/header.wml 7 Nov 2003 16:04:14 -0000 1.7
+++ english/template/debian/header.wml 13 Nov 2003 23:37:31 -0000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
<ifeq "$(DOCTYPE)" xhtml
"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN\" \"http://ww w.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\">"
- "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\">"
+ "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd\";>"
/>
# not using [AR: dir="RTL":] because apparently the whole page was flipped
# and this wasn't desirable for them
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