On Jun 2, 2009, at 8:52 PM, David Hucklesby wrote:

>> No need to recode the site! The incomplete HTML 4 DOCTYPE puts  
>> browsers into quirks mode. Nothing to do with XHTML code - which is  
>> treated as HTML by browsers anyway.

>> Give your pages a complete DOCTYPE, including the DTD declaration,  
>> and you are good to go:

>> http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_DOCTYPE.asp

>> FWIW - browser quirks mode differs from standards mode in very few  
>> ways, with the exception of Internet Explorer. In that browser  
>> (alone) all versions behave like version 5.5.
>

Well, that's a relief. I had been wondering if I could find a plain  
english doctype standards declaration somewhere. The whole site is  
full of tables - nested and nested through and through - and I  
imagined that the errors would be excessive.

Thanks for the link!

-Delos
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