Oddly enough, that's correct. The lack of doctype, or an explicitly "quirks" doctype as below, always puts IE8 into compatibility mode, which is pretty much identical to IE7 -- so you get the ie6/7 compiled permutation, because the ie8 one wouldn't work at all. Another way of saying this is that there's no such thing as IE8 quirks mode. Weird, eh? Do keep in mind that GWT apps generally work in standards mode, but your layout may do some surprising things, especially for some of the table-based layouts such as StackPanel. I'm working feverishly to get a replacement layout system finished that will eliminate the need for most tables in layout, and allow us to move forward towards (eventual) standards-mode-only support.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:27 AM, stuckagain <david.no...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I was trying out recompiling with GWT 1.7 to see if I could remove my > hacks to disable the IFrame trick in dialogs and I noticed that it was > still active. > > It looks like ie8 is only triggered if you use the HTML 4.01 strict > mode. > > If I use the transitional doctype it falls back to ie6. > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > > Is this really the purpose ? > > David > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
