- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:49:56 +0100
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Henri Sivonen wrote: > You can't just "rely" on the Standards Mode taking care of what you are > doing. The Standards Mode is not an enforcement mode. If you are doing > the right thing with CSS, the Standards Mode will render it correctly > (subject to bugs). However, if the Standards Mode is rendering > something the way you want, you can't know for sure that you aren't > relying on non-standard or buggy behavior that will get fixed. I do agree with this (it's really only another way of saying that testing can never demonstrate the absence of bugs, only their presence). But testing against a browser which is believed to be running in Full Standards Mode is surely better than testing against one that's known not to be, n'est-ce pas ? > As for the Almost Standards Mode vs. the Standards Mode, the difference > is that in the Almost Standards Mode vertical alignment of images works > differently, which matters if you have sliced images in table cells. We may well have : my work is concerned almost entirely with templates, and I have little or no control over the uses to which they are eventually put ... ** Phil.
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