On Jan 28, 2008, at 12:01 AM, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: >> >> on Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:22:38 Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: >> >>> 'The standards' (and the doctypes) were not written with differences >>> in 'rendering' in mind. >> >> is this what you know or you believe? is there anything documented >> about this statement? > > DOCTYPE sniffing was introduced with IE6 (release 2001). HTML 4.01 > and XHTML 1.0/1.1 both predate this. HTML 4.01 doesn't say anything > about DOCTYPE sniffing in either SGML or XML serialisations. Actually, IE 5 Mac was the first to use doctype switching (march 2000) and Gecko (I think Moz 0.6).
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