Re: Validators, Validation chart

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Ian Stuart wrote:

> the "<?xml..." declaration throws IE6 into "quirks mode"

Yes, and that means a mode that has intentionally been left poorly 
documented.

> and completely ruins 
> any chance you have of getting the page to render evenly across browsers!

In many cases yes. For the given document, presented as a real (though 
trivial) example of a small document, I don't think "quirks mode" differs 
from "standards mode". After all, "quirks mode" does not mean "mess up 
everything", just "behave by old nonstandard rules in ways we don't bother 
telling too exactly".

-- 
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

Received on Saturday, 29 April 2006 05:06:03 UTC