- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:15:34 +0200
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Friday, July 23, 2004, 9:02:57 PM, Boris wrote: BZ> Chris Lilley wrote: >> IH> No, if you don't conform to it, you don't use it. >> >> I was reading some advice that if new elements and attributes were added >> to HTML 4, the old DOCTYPE should be used rather than one that actually >> describes them, to preserve this standards/quirks switching. BZ> Hmm... Mozilla treats all unknown doctypes or doctypes with an internal subset BZ> in standards mode. Quirks is only applied to doctypes present in the doctype BZ> blacklist, basically. Excellent. I believe that is the best way. although, its tough on people who make conformant valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional docs (and serve them as text/html so that Win/IE can display them). BZ> What behavior do other browsers have with regard to unknown doctypes? BZ> This would be a good thing to add to that quirks/standards chart that was cited BZ> earlier in the thread. It would. Results from more browsers, if available, would be good there too. I am thinking particularly of Safari, Konqueror, NetFront and the browser from Openwave. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group
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