On 27 Jan 2008, at 18:52, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
>
>> The DOCTYPE trigger a non-standardised switch, which affects both  
>> HTML
>> and CSS (and, to a lesser extent, DOM). It is a de-facto standard
>> implemented very, very, very similarly across all major browsers.
>
> What? Are you kidding?
>
> Or do you mean the "de-facto standard" on making a choice between  
> modes
> called "quirks mode" or "standards mode"? That's something that major
> browsers sort-of roughly agree, loosely speaking. The _meanings_ of
> these modes are, however, undocumented (or with sketchy descriptions
> that do not actually describe most of the features) and widely
> diverging.

Yeah, I meant the actual switch.


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Geoffrey Sneddon
<http://gsnedders.com/>

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