- From: Daniel Schattenkirchner <schattenkirchner.daniel@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:10:34 +0200
- To: public-html@w3.org
Simon Pieters wrote: > This was a regression from Opera 9.0 due to a misanalyzed broken page > using the following doctype: > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://... > > It triggered quirks mode in Opera 9.0 but standards mode in Gecko and > WebKit because we used a substring match and they matched the whole > thing. Note the single slash in there. > > So we changed to make HTML 4.0 transitional doctypes trigger almost > standards mode. This broke other pages that used the proper HTML 4.0 > transitional doctype and required quirks mode to work correctly (in > Opera/Gecko/WebKit, anyway). I see, then it really is necessary to keep those doctypes trigger quirks mode. Could you please tell me more about <!doctype html public> ? It's a Full Standards Mode doctype in Opera (9.6 and latest 10 build) and IE. Is this also a regression or has it always been that way?
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