Re: [CSS21] Test Suite

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Thomas Scholz wrote:
>
> It's up to the browser developers to render perfect valid HTML documents
> according to the specifications. »Quirks« and »Standard compliance mode«
> are moving targets, so I don't care anymore about the reasons for a bug.

Actually they're pretty stable now.


> A bug is a bug is a bug. That's all I want to know. If tests had to
> handle all the various different kinds of -- ahem --rendering modes,
> they would become ridiculously complicated...

You don't have to cope with lots of rendering modes. Just trigger
standards more. To do that, just make sure the first thing in the document
is an HTML4 Strict DOCTYPE.

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Received on Friday, 23 July 2004 08:57:53 UTC