In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Biesinger wrote: > Jens Hatlak wrote: >> Christian Biesinger wrote: >>> However, this is only the case for pages using the strict mode. >>> It works for others, so a doctype like this can be used and the >>> stylesheet will work: >>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> >>> (I hope I remember correctly...( > >> The problem is not the Strict mode but the URL. > > Eh, the URL triggers the Strict Mode. > And there are doctypes without URLs that trigger strict mode as well, afaik.
what he meant was that it wasn't a strict doctype. you can trigger strict mode by using a strict doctype, but strict mode is also used to render non-strict documents in a strictly non-strict way if they have a non-strict doctype including a URL. i'm not sure if it's officially called "strict mode", but it's a dumb name to use in any case, because it has little to do with HTML strict. calling it "standards-compliant mode" would avoid confusion between the HTML Strict standard and mozilla's "strict" (i.e. compliant) mode, which can apply to documents which are not written in HTML Strict. -- michael
