- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:58:15 +0200
- To: "Alan Gresley" <alan@css-class.com>
- Cc: "Mike Wilson" <mikewse@hotmail.com>, "'Www-style'" <www-style@w3.org>, "'Daniel Glazman'" <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:53:53 +0200, Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com> wrote: > So I guess your saying that all implementors will forever want to > support quirks mode? Yes. :-( > Wasn't the Doctype switch introduced as a means to move towards a more > stand complaint mode (leaving the mistakes of the pass behind). CSS0M > will be used by implementation now (2008) into the future. Quirks mode > belong in the pass along with implementations being fuzzy wuzzy with > poor or ignorant coding from authors. As you have said on your blog. > > "They have introduced a new way to trigger standards mode that is not > compatible with any other browser. In Internet Explorer 8 you can > trigger standards mode using a Microsoft specific meta element. All > other browsers will render the page in quirks mode." > > Quirks mode in IE is very different from quirks mode in other > implementations. Standard mode in IE8 is very similar to the other > implementations quirks modes as oppose to old IE quirks mode. > > This leaves one question. What quirks mode do you think you have to > emulate with CSSOM? Quirks mode as defined by HTML 5, as indicated in the draft: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom-view/#background -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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