- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:08:17 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Petrazickis wrote: > > Wouldn't authors need to use an HTML4 or an XHTML doctype specifically > to trigger the standards mode in IE6? In that case, specifying a doctype > of our own would be counter-productive to the goal of compatibility with > IE6. <!DOCTYPE HTML> triggers standards mode. > Perhaps we need to specify that any DOCTYPE will be ignored when there > is an <html version="5.0"> present. That would work if we could ditch the DOCTYPE altogether, but we can't, as that would trigger quirks mode in legacy browsers. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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