Daniel, IE 6 does have something "like" a standards mode - it's not
really standards compliant, but it does behave differently, when
putting it into that mode. That's because, when it's in quirks mode,
then it behaves like IE 5.5. See http://www.quirksmode.org/css/quirksmode.html
for more details.

As far as I can tell, the new layout panels of GWT 2.x are designed to
also work on IE6 in its "standards" mode - sometimes by emulating CSS
properties with javascript.

@Ata: Try to use <!DOCTYPE html> (note the uppercase DOCTYPE). Make
sure, that it's the very first thing in the document (no comments or
anything in front of it!)


On Jun 10, 2:28 pm, Daniel Le Clere <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ummm... IE 6 doesn't have a standards mode... Adding that doctype is
> probably just causing more issues. The HTML 5 doctype is useful for
> forcing IE 7 and 8 into standards mode. If you want to get your
> program rolling for IE 6 you're going to have to write some specific
> views under the MVC or accept greater restrictions in your overall
> design. GWT is not magic, it cannot force IE 6 to do something that
> was not accounted for in its design. If you want that kind of magic
> try Google Frame :)
>
> On Jun 10, 12:37 pm, Ata <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > > In GWT some widgets only work properly in quirks or standard mode, not
> > > both. As far as I could tell I should be running the app in standard
> > > mode because I have <!doctype html> as the first line of the root HTML
> > > page, however widgets like TabLayoutPanel that are supposed to work in
> > > standard mode don't work, and the quirks mode ones do. I'm using IE6
> > > (I can also try with chrome and IE8 later, but it should work with any
> > > browser). Does anyone know why this quirks/standard mode is not
> > > working as advertised? Could it be a browser thing, or am I really NOT
> > > in standard mode even though I think I am, or is the GWT documentation
> > > just lying to me?

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