> As a simple webdesigner, I'd be happy enough with some documentation
> that defines what really happens in these mysterious "standard" and
> "compatibility" modes. I've read all the articles I could find ("all"
> meaning "not very many at all"), but they only provide are listings
> about which doctype activates which mode; they never explain what it
> actually means. And this is the first time I hear that the DOM is part
> of these modes, too.
>
> 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"?
Actually, you can see a number of things that are turned on for
"quirks" mode by looking in the quirk.css file (it's in the res
folder). However, there are other things going on in the program code
itself. Perhaps doing a bugzilla query for quirks might help?
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Micah Harwell
Industrial Techware
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