what is the reason u feel tat way? is it because u have try n u have fail? Arjun Ray wrote: > On 27 Jan 2000 07:14:33 GMT, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erik van der Poel) wrote: > > > > There is a bug report that discusses what doctype should trigger > > Standard Mode: > > > > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1312 > > I read it, with growing dismay. The concept may appear workable, but > in reality it's utterly, comprehensively and totally bogus, perhaps > tragically so. > > The doctype declaration will not tell you what you need to know. That > isn't its job, anyway. The name nothwithstanding, the doctype thingy > is not about (declaring) document types. There might be people who > think that, or have learned that from somewhere, but sadly, they're > wrong; and at any rate, isolated instances of "sincere" use will be > swamped by the bogotic extrusions of FrontPage, Composer, wannabes and > &Deity; knows what else. > > Like it or not, 'quirks' mode is your only practical default. How to > trigger 'strict' mode is a problem for which as yet there's no good > answer. A lot of that has to do with inadequacy in the "official" > specs too. They don't *provide* for an answer (even though the Powers > That Be at the W3C actually think otherwise.) > > My suggestion? Make sure you support (a) Processing Instructions, and > (b) Marked Sections. Why? Because 'strict' mode should - and will - > be a matter of document authors actively asking for it, and so, as a > workaround, they might just use one of those syntactic devices to pass > Mozilla the right message *unambiguously*. > > > :ar
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