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).

Philippe
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Philippe Wittenbergh
<http://l-c-n.com/>





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