- From: Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:18:25 +0200
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, public-html@w3.org
Henri Sivonen schrieb: >> Make <!DOCTYPE html> *always* trigger the latest standards mode, >> unless accompanied by an explicit switch. >> >> e.g. >> >> <!DOCTYPE html> >> <!--[mode = IE8]--> >> <html> >> ... >> >> It doesn't really matter what syntax you use for it. > > It sure does. If Microsoft insists on more switches, the sane way is to > use an attribute on the root element as it survives through various XML > APIs. I have been involved in hacking a SAX-based tool to preserve > (against my explicit advice) IE6 quirks modeness in XHTML served as > text/html. (The XML decl thing.) It was ugly. Why should it survive? IE is the only browser who needs this, hence the proprietary conditional-comments thingy. Other browsers don't want to switch; they already handle the standards mode like the next IE is supposed to handle <!DOCTYPE html>. --Dao
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