- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:49:38 +0200
- To: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Karl Dubost wrote: > Le 3 sept. 2008 à 13:10, Ian Hickson a écrit : >> On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Boris Zbarsky wrote: >>> I'd love to see hard numbers here, but again my gut feeling is that as a >>> UA implementor I can't make that sort of change. >> >> IIRC, my research found 50% of pages had no DOCTYPE. > > ok that's a good start. So we are talking about 50% of Web pages (which > is indeed a lot) > ... > I also wonder if people will really protest if their site change to > strict mode (given that the CSS Web designers, who are most likely to > complain about differences, are usually using standard mode.) Hmm > difficult to test. Try it out for yourself. Using Opera, in opera:config, set "CompatMode Override" to 2, which forces standards mode for everything. Mozilla apparently also has nglayout.compatibility.mode in about:config, but I couldn't get it to work in Firefox 3. http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries#NGLayout..2A Then try browsing the web, looking for sites that normally render in quirks mode and see how much they break. -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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