Re: HTML 4.0 Transitional and Quirks Mode

[Clarence (Andreas M. Schneider)]

Ari Feldman wrote:
> 
> I noticed that when the DOCTYPE of a page is set to HTML 4.0
> Transitional, Mozilla enters quirks mode and, among other things,
> ignores certain CSS attributes. However, if the DOCTYPE is 4.0 Strict or
> 4.01 Transitional or Strict, Mozilla does not enter quirks mode. Is this
> a bug, or is there some reason why HTML 4.0 transitional should be
> handled in quirks mode?

The decision to make HTML 4.01 Transitional trigger standards
mode has been made right before NS 6.0 came out. It was assumed
to be to risky at that point to do the same with 4.0. You can
read the whole story at
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42525 .

Clarence