Le Sun, 11 Mar 2007 02:45:18 +0200, Alexey Feldgendler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit:
Not necessarily. For a long time, Microsoft has been in a position where
they benefit from the lack of interoperability with other browsers. They
had no incentive to make their browser standards-compliant. Now times
have changed, and even Microsoft, as far as I understand, is now willing
to improve their standards compliance. So I don't think that the
standards-mode story will repeat -- this happened before due to browser
wars, where interoperability has been broken intentionally.
Yes I understand that, however I am skeptical about Microsoft Internet
Explorer. I do not really believe they stopped wanting to dominate the web
browsers market, and suddenly they'll just make a good web browser. They
will create lockins, traps, and other tricks, to lock beginners in a
Microsoftish World Wide Web.
Until further proof, I shall maintain my stance.
IE 7 is not such proof. It would have been a good start, in 2002-2003.
Instead of using this DOCTYPE switch, I was even thinking of
conditional comments, DOM document property, etc. Yet, other methods
only add complications. If Microsoft considers adding a new rendering
mode as a must, such that it will not break many sites, then this
DOCTYPE is an elegant solution. History will repeat itself, no matter
how elegant the solution might be.
Conditonal comments and similar approaches solve another kind of
problem: how to allow making pages which do the right thing in good
browsers but still function in older browsers. OTOH, the DOCTYPE switch
allows the browser to do the right thing for good pages without breaking
the old pages.
Hence I consider the <!DOCTYPE html> a good and elegant solution for
switching to the "strict standards mode" (even if I do not support it). I
do not like the other proposals in this thread.
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