On 06/07/18 22:01 (GMT-0700) Tee G.Peng apparently typed:

> Please tolerate my ignorance.

>   I always thought transitional doctypes are quirkmode but today I  
> was told it's not, the quirkmode is when a page has no doctype declared.

Choosing a doctype in order to trigger your choice of rendering mode is
more complicated than that. Read up about Mozilla's DOCTYPE sniffing:
http://tinyurl.com/rmo4o

AFAIK, most times you put Gecko in standards mode, you do the same with
other browsers as well.
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