Is there any documentation on Mozilla's new DOCTYPE handling, David?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Baron) wrote:
> I just checked in (on the trunk) some changes to the DOCTYPE handling
> code. (They should be in any builds after, but not including,
> 2001-09-08-14.) The purpose of these changes is to make our DOCTYPE
> handling forward-compatible. The old code generally used a list of
> known patterns in DOCTYPE declarations to determine that a page should
> be displayed using strict mode, and otherwise used quirks mode. The new
> code uses the presence of one of a set of known public identifiers, or
> the lack of a DOCTYPE declaration, to determine that a page should be
> displayed using quirks mode, and otherwise uses strict mode.
>
> These changes are not intended to change the mode that is used for
> DOCTYPE declarations in common use on the Web (except in a few known
> cases where the lack of future-compatibility had already become a lack
> of present-compatibility). However, since the new code is based on a
> list of known DOCTYPE declarations that should trigger quirks mode,
> there are probably a few that we need in the list that were omitted.
> This means that the changes will probably cause a few regressions.
>
> If you notice any regressions in the layout of sites in builds starting
> this weekend that may be related to this change, please let me know, so
> that I can add the necessary public identifiers to the list (in
> nsParser.cpp) or make other tweaks, if necessary.
>
> -David
