- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:40:30 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Philip Taylor wrote: > > In Firefox 2: > > javascript:s='<?>';for(i=0;i<1006;++i)s+=' > ';window.location='data:text/html,'+s+'<!doctype > html><script>document.write(document.compatMode)</script>' > > javascript:s='<?>';for(i=0;i<1007;++i)s+=' > ';window.location='data:text/html,'+s+'<!doctype > html><script>document.write(document.compatMode)</script>' > > The first produces CSS1Compat, the second BackCompat. As far as I can > tell, Firefox requires the doctype to be found when parsing [using > standards-mode rules] the first 1024 characters (not bytes) from the > first non-whitespace character, and then it reparses the whole document > in quirks mode if necessary. Hm, indeed, how odd. (It doesn't happen if you have purely spaces there, you need some sort of content there first.) Still, I don't think we should try to duplicate this unless we have evidence that it really is needed, as I described in my previous e-mail. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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