IE8 doesn't use a DOCTYPE to distinguish between quirks and standards mode (except possibly for HTML 4 transitional) Instead, they use an HTTP header either from the server, or specified in <meta http-equiv>
The former is better since it avoids parsing the document twice. Solution: if gadget == quirks: always add the header (other browsers will ignore it) if gadget == standards, always output the correct doctype and never output the header (works on all browsers) On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Bruno Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IE8 defaults to standards mode, so I presume that you're proposing adding > a > DOCTYPE to make IE8 explicitly use quirks mode? Can you apply this to all > renders, so that we're not doing useragent detection on the server. What > DOCTYPE will that be? > > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Kevin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey everyone, > > > > I'm doing some testing of our current implementations with IE8 beta 1. > So > > far it looks like we'll have to make at least one significant change due > > to > > quirks mode default differences, but otherwise it seems to work pretty > > well. > > > > -- > > ~Kevin > > > -- ~Kevin
