- From: Pierre Saslawsky <pierre@netscape.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 00:03:08 -0700
- To: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>
- CC: webmaster@richinstyle.com, www-style@w3.org
Todd Fahrner wrote: > > >But then anyone using a new DTD, such as that of the new ISO/IEC > >standard, which is just about the strictest DTD around, will find their > >ultra-strict page will be rendered in quirks mode because the browser > >was released before the dtd. > > Again: not so in MacIE5. I don't know the latest turn of the wind > about Mozilla's policy here, but I and several others have argued > strenuously in the past that all unknown HTML document types must > trigger strict mode, as in MacIE5. In other words, strict should be > the default in Mozilla. If what you assert is true, please speak up > in the appropriate Mozilla forums. > Unfortunately, unknown DTDs don't seem to trigger the strict mode in current Mozilla builds. I hope it's an oversight. I filed a bug (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43274) and if need be, I'll continue to argue as streneously as you did so that it gets fixed. Pierre
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