Re: Doctypes that trigger quirks mode (was Re: Legacy Doctype and Doctype Versioning) from Leif Halvard Silli on 2010-02-17 (public-html@w3.org from February 2010)

From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:37:13 +0100
To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
Cc: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <20100217043713384975.59d9c123@xn--mlform-iua.no>

Leif Halvard Silli, Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:31:24 +0100:
>> 
>> HTML5 does not define quirks mode as the default. 
> 
> I'm sorry. I jumped over a ";" in the text. My bad.

I read the ";" here as a colon:

"A Document is always set to one of three modes: no quirks mode, the 
default; quirks mode, [...]"

For my own part, that text could have had clearer language.
-- 
leif halvard silli

Received on Wednesday, 17 February 2010 03:37:46 UTC