Arieh, "I assume the main issue would be if it was possible to invoke standard mode on a badly structured page (such as a page where the DOCTYPE is missing or broken)"
You hit it right on the head. Rey... On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:33 AM, אריה גלזר <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Max Vasiliev <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Why do you want to change it? =) > > > > I assume the main issue would be if it was possible to invoke standard mode > on a badly structured page (such as a page where the DOCTYPE is missing or > broken). I've had the "pleasure" of working on such a site client-side with > no option to touch the HTML at all. Unfortunately, I didn't find such a > solution either (also - the main excuse for not having one was that the site > was already "working" and such a change would break it, so revoking the > quirks mode would have done more harm than good)... > > Another half-baked reason - assume you want to use border-box box-sizing, > being able to invoke quirks mode on IE6-7 would result in a similar behavior > (not that I think this is a good idea - just saying - there's always wierd > ways to answer the why question :) ) > -- > Arieh Glazer > אריה גלזר > 052-5348-561 > http://www.arieh.co.il > http://www.link-wd.co.il > > -- > To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
