On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Michael Nahrath wrote:
>
> http://gutfeldt.ch/matthias/articles/doctypeswitch.html
>
> Evangelizing Mozilla to web authors is getting hard enough if it comes
> to that topic. Those who are used to author for tag-soup-interpreters
> rather than for standard compliant browsers even give the advice:
> "Leave out the Doctype thing and the page will no more be broken in
> Mozilla! Mozilla does weired things if it recognizes a Doctype."
If you write tag soup, you have no business adding a DOCTYPE.
If you write standards compliant markup but don't want the browser to do
the right thing, then just use 4.0 Transitional without including a system
identifier in the DOCTYPE. All browsers that use DOCTYPE sniffing (MacIE5,
Mozilla, Netscape 6.x and WinIE6) use their quirks mode with that DOCTYPE.
If you write standards compliant markup, you can include a strict HTML4
DCOTYPE and expect Mozilla to do the right thing.
It's not really that complicated... :-)
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