On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Riley <rileyl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Changing the doctype to HTML worked for me, after almost an hour of
> frustrated toying and searching.  Thanks!
>
> Am I risking anything by losing the default doctype PUBLIC "-//W3C//
> DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" ?

Yes, you risk breaking any html/dhtml/css/javascript that depends on
quirks mode.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirks_mode

If you are starting from scratch, stick with standards mode.  If you
have a large existing webapp, you'll want to test all of it in
standards mode before you deploy the change.

Jeff

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