On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Matthias Gutfeldt wrote:
> "L. David Baron" wrote (about the amount of code for "quirks" mode):
> > standard.)  If you count DOM HTML (as opposed to DOM Core) as a quirk
> > (despite its standardization), then it would be much higher.  And while
> 
> actually means. And this is the first time I hear that the DOM is part
> of these modes, too.

I never said that the DOM is involved in quirks modes.  I said that if
you consider code that exists for backwards compatibility but is *not*
differentiated in the modes, then you might have to consider some or all
of the HTML DOM even though it is standardized.

> Of course some of the functionality can be "reverse-engineered" with
> test cases, but I'd much prefer some real documentation. Any chance for
> that? Or should we treat Mozilla browsers as a "black box"?

I just wrote a list of what I could find:
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/mozilla/quirklist

-David

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