- From: Chris Wilson <cwilso@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 08:53:54 -0700
- To: <www-style@w3.org>
Jan Roland Eriksson [mailto:jrexon@newsguy.com] wrote: >What will the upcoming MSIE6 do with e.g. the following? > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "+//IDN htmlc.cx//DTD RcM1.0//EN" [ > <?ArcBase RcM> > . > ...lots of other architectural and notation stuff here... > . > >] > <HTML> > ... > </HTML> I presume you actually meant to put "]>" in line six, not ">]". >This is a basic skeleton of what is known in SGML as an "architecture >processing instruction". You can stay friendly by saying that MSIE6 will >assume "full CSS compliant rendering mode", if not? well DocZilla and >Opera are already usable to present documents with an "odd" prologue. IE 6 will indeed assume CSS compliant mode. However, it gets confused by what it sees as nested angle brackets, and terminates the PI after "RcM>". (Note that we've never claimed to a full SGML processing engine in IE, and it's highly unlikely that we ever will - as XML has largely replaced SGML as a syntax language for markup schema.) >>I suspect the CSS Working Group (which I have not been personally a >>member of for over a year now) simply thought it would be a good idea >>to correct the spec. > >They did not "correct it", >they "fucked up" and that's all there is to it. You should really moderate your language if you wish to be taken seriously. -Chris Wilson Program Manager Internet Explorer team
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