Hi, I did a little more research into the subject, and my email reply became so long, that I put it up as a web-page - that way I should be able to update the page with new test-results when available.
I'd appreciate your comments/improvements. Testing from people with new Macs would also be appreciated. http://www.richardinfo.com/case_studies/doctypes.html or http://www.your-site.com/~rinfo//case_studies/doctypes.html if above DNS times out. It seems to me that we have a usable doctype testing procedure like this. I wouldn't automatically include this in DynAPI's browser.js though, untill we find we need to use the switch in our code somewhere... People who need it now can include it themselves - right?? Cheers, Richard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephan Tolksdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Richard Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 10:39 AM Subject: Re[2]: [Dynapi-Dev] IE6 strict / quirks > Hi Richard, > > thanks for the reference. I didn't know about the compatMode > parameter, which seems to be a reliable test for IE6 strict mode. > > But according to: > http://developer.apple.com/internet/_html/doctype.html > > this test: > this.strict=(document.compatMode=="CSS1Compat"||(document.doctype&&document. > doctype.name.indexOf(".dtd")==-1))?true:false; > > doesn't catch the following Mac case: > > " > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> > > This DOCTYPE claims that the document is a strict document; that is, > it is authored according to a strict adherence to the W3C > specification, and uses no presentational markup (like <FONT>). Upon > seeing this, IE5/Mac will kick its rendering engine into standards > mode, so that your document will be displayed according to the W3C > standards." > > The possible combinations of (platform * browser * compatibility mode) > is growing exponentially. Doesn't make our life easier... > > Stephan > > > _______________________________________________ > Dynapi-Dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.mail-archive.com/dynapi-dev@lists.sourceforge.net/ > _______________________________________________ Dynapi-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/dynapi-dev@lists.sourceforge.net/
