I recently started to use GWT 2.4 (previously used 2.1) and noticed a 
message in the hosted mode log indicating that quirks mode is no longer 
supported by GWT.
 
[INFO] GWT no longer supports Quirks Mode (document.compatMode=' 
BackCompat').<br>Make sure your application's host HTML page has a 
Standards Mode (document.compatMode=' CSS1Compat') doctype,<br>e.g. by 
using <!doctype html> at the start of your application's HTML 
page.<br><br>To continue using this unsupported rendering mode and risk 
layout problems, suppress this message by adding<br>the following line to 
your*.gwt.xml module *file:<br>  <extend-configuration-property
*<https://groups.google.com/forum/%3Cbr%3E  <extend-configuration-property>name="document.compatMode"
 value="BackCompat"/> 
However, in the GWT 2.4 FAQ documentation, I found the following:
 
Does GWT support standards mode?
As of GWT 1.5, yes. Standards mode is supported. For backwards 
compatibility, quirks mode is also still supported. Support for quirks 
mode, however, may be dropped in future versions of GWT, and it is 
recommended that you update your GWT-enabled pages to use standards mode.
I ran my application in quirks mode without any issues. At this point, I 
need to be able to run in quirks mode because my custom GWT widgets are 
wrappers for a JavaScript library that requires quirks mode at least for 
now until we convert it to run in standards mode.
 
Can someone clarify what the log message means and why there is a 
discrepancy between that and the documentation?  Since my application 
appears to work as it did before, does the message mean that there will no 
longer be active maintenance of the code that supports quirks mode, but the 
support is not being removed?
 
Thanks.
 

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