Geoff Welsh schrieb:
Q to KaiRo: How much of the Mozilla Project's time is spent on the "quirks" section of Gecko that allows the engine to GUESS wtf the non-compliant quasi-HTML, that is dominating the web, is supposed to tell a browser to display?
Nowadays not too much, I think, but it cost us multiple man-years for sure and was one of the reasons why Mozilla 1.0 and Netscape 6/7 were not successful in the masses - they didn't have really good quirks mode yet, while they were quite good in supporting the standards.
CSS was in the standard as of 1999 and NOBODY (among web site designers) cared until the iPhone came out.
CSS is old than that, even, and I have seen it in heavy use on a number of websites even in 2000. The iPhone didn't change anything there, but the demise of Netscape 4.x (which had really really bad CSS support) and IE6 (which had quite mediocre CSS support) and adoption of browsers that could well deal with CSS (driven by Firefox adoption to a large degree) was the turning point.
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