On 21.12.2005 18:40, Adam Kuehn wrote: > Holly Bergevin wrote: > >>(The MSDN page does not mention HTML4.01, the current W3C >>recommendation, but I have found that, for box model issues at >>least, as long as there is a complete doctype, IE6 will be in standards mode.) > > > Well, the page you cite does say, "Standards-compliant mode is also > switched on when you specify a version of HTML that is not listed in > the table, such as HTML 1.0 or HTML 3.22." Version 4.01 is not > listed in the table, so therefore I would deduce that 4.01 always > triggers standards-compliant mode, regardless of URL. I have not > tested this deduction in practice, however, and would be interested > to hear the results. >
For those, who want to know it more exactly < http://www.kriton.de/CSS/doctype.html > As I wrote on the page, newer versions of browsers may differ. That means, especially Safari and Opera might switch to a *real* standards-compliant mode in newer versions, while older versions keep in almost-standards mode. Even Henri Sivonen will not give us an answer. A bit more topical, but not up-to-date (Opera 8/9 is missing): < http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/ > The minimum to switch browsers to Compat1 in (X)HTML is: <!DOCTYPE html> Regards, Uwe Kaiser ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
