Sam Collett schrieb: > In IE it doesn't make a difference in rendering whether you use HTML4 > or XHTML as the DOCTYPE. You could probably even have HTML 3 as the > DOCTYPE and still have it render the same. > > Mozilla on the other hand, does sniff DOCTYPE: > http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla's_DOCTYPE_sniffing > > 3 modes: Full Standards Mode, Almost Standards Mode (only for HTML 4 / > XHTML 1.0 Transitional / Frameset) and Quirks Mode.
That's not true. IE 6+ does have a Standards and a Quirks Mode. I'm sure MS invented the whole thing to overcome the incorrectly implemented box model in IE 5. Thats why IE 6 in Quirks Mode will use the old box model, whereas IE 6 in Standards Mode will use the standards compliant (W3C) box model. In IE, if you use a Doctype with a System Identifier (URL) it will render in Quirks Mode (at least with XHTML and HTML 4 Doctypes - I really don't know/care about HTML 3): <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> It will render in Quirks mode if you omit the System Identifier: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"> It will also render in Quirks mode if you put an HTML or an xml declaration comment before the Doctype declaration: <!-- put IE into Quirks mode --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> Here's a pretty good overview: http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/ -- Klaus _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
