[WSG] weird IE6 doctype switching question

2005-12-18 Thread Marco van Hylckama Vlieg
Hi guys, This is probably going to sound really weird but I need this for something I'm working on. Question: Is it possible to make IE6 use the broken box model for a PART of the document? This means I have an XHTML 1.0 Strict / Transitional document with a div in it for which the inner

Re: [WSG] weird IE6 doctype switching question

2005-12-18 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day This is probably going to sound really weird but I need this for something I'm working on. Yep, you got that right but I won't ask why :-) Question: Is it possible to make IE6 use the broken box model for a PART of the document? As far as I know, the only way you'd get that

Re: [WSG] weird IE6 doctype switching question

2005-12-18 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Marco van Hylckama Vlieg wrote: Question: Is it possible to make IE6 use the broken box model for a PART of the document? No, DOCTYPE switching applies to the whole document, not just parts of the document. The different box model may one day be able to be chosen using the proposed

Re: [WSG] weird IE6 doctype switching question

2005-12-18 Thread Stephen Stagg
Lachlan Hunt wrote: Marco van Hylckama Vlieg wrote: Question: Is it possible to make IE6 use the broken box model for a PART of the document? No, DOCTYPE switching applies to the whole document, not just parts of the document. The different box model may one day be able to be chosen using

Re: [WSG] weird IE6 doctype switching question

2005-12-18 Thread Marco van Hylckama Vlieg
About the 'why': I'm working on a little Backbase application. From what I've seen so far it seems to require quirks mode to function right in Internet Explorer. You can see this because their website at www.backbase.com has !-- -- on top of the page. Now I want to include a little backbase

Re: [WSG] weird IE6 doctype switching question

2005-12-18 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Lachlan Hunt wrote: As for quirks mode, you should basically try to forget it even exists as an alternative and never, under any circumstances, attempt to develop a page using it. Use of quirks mode is never a good solution to any problem. IMHO, throwing IE6 into quirksmode is sometimes the

Re: [WSG] weird IE6 doctype switching question

2005-12-18 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Thierry Koblentz wrote: IMHO, throwing IE6 into quirksmode is sometimes the only way to make it behave. Agreed. Makes IE6 behave almost according to standards without any of its Strict but not very standard limitations. However, using a !-- comment -- to achieve Quirks mode in IE6 should be