- From: Ian Hickson <py8ieh=mozilla@bath.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:12:38 +0100 (BST)
- To: Jan Roland Eriksson <jrexon@newsguy.com>
- cc: www-html@w3.org, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Jan Roland Eriksson wrote:
>
> Don't use "doctype-sniffing" for the wrong purpose, doing that
> will only create a new set of problems that we need to discuss
> again some years from now.
I disagree, but let us put that aside for now.
Given the following facts:
1. For browsers to have any significant market share they must
render legacy content in a backwards-compatible way.
2. Browsers should render documents designed for the standards
in a standards-compliant way without being explicitly told
to using non-standard extensions.
...how would you suggest browsers should detect whether to use
their quirks mode or their standard compliant mode?
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