Hi Chris, you better use the strict mode: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";>
That would benefit since new GWT layout panels are optimized for the strict mode. Sincerely, Alex On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Chris Lercher <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I just had a look at a html page generated by GWT 1.7, and was > wondering about this: > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > <!-- The HTML 4.01 Transitional DOCTYPE declaration--> > <!-- above set at the top of the file will set --> > <!-- the browser's rendering engine into --> > <!-- "Quirks Mode". Replacing this declaration --> > <!-- with a "Standards Mode" doctype is supported, --> > <!-- but may lead to some differences in layout. --> > > GWT 1.7 was made for quirks mode, as far as I remember. But HTML 4.01 > Transitional isn't quirks mode. For all I know, this is called "Almost > Standards mode", which is very close to "Standards mode", except > mainly for images. > > See http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/ (Section "Choosing a Doctype") > and http://www.quirksmode.org/css/quirksmode.html > > So I wonder: Is this incorrect in the generated HTML page, or are the > GWT docs actually always talking about "Almost Standards mode", when > they say, that certain things before GWT 2.0 were designed for "Quirks > mode"? Or maybe the information in my links is wrong? > > Chris > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-web-toolkit%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
