On Monday 2004-03-29 11:33 +0200, Jens Tinz wrote:
> This is also true for <body>. So without an exception for it,
> the CSS part of the following code would be ignored. This is
> neither the expected result nor how Mozilla and IE handle it.

It is ignored in standards mode, as it should be.  We have some quirks
in quirks mode.  (See http://mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/ .)

What you're asking about is quirks mode behavior, and what matters for
quirks mode behavior is what is required for existing important pages on
the web to lay out correctly.  New pages should use a DOCTYPE and thus
be handled in standards mode.

That said, you could file a bug if you think our quirks mode behavior
isn't compatible enough with IE/Windows and there isn't a bug on file
already.  However, the issue would be an extremely low priority unless
significant numbers of real web sites depend on the behavior.

> All in all it looks as if the specification is poorly thought
> out. Mozilla seems to seek a compromise between user expectation
> and specification that doesn't really work out.

No, the specification is merely designed for document layout and being
used for unintended things.  New specifications are needed for new
things, such as user-interface layout.

-David

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L. David Baron                                <URL: http://dbaron.org/ >
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