- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:04:47 -0500
- To: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@exchange.microsoft.com>
- CC: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Alex Mogilevsky wrote: > It is to be decided how exactly you get into standards mode. It sounds like what you are > suggesting is that IE8 is standard by default, and that it abandons compatibility with its > previous versions. Is this what you think would be best for the web? > > Don't get me wrong, I don't have any attachment to quirks mode. I would love to use standards > everywhere. But certainly, if we just drop quirks mode, we'll break millions of pages. Somehow we > have to be able to tell that a page is actually designed for standards. > > What do you think is the right way to decide if a page will not be broken if rendered in 100% > standard mode? I would suggest that any doctype that triggers full standards mode in Mozilla, Opera, and Safari would be a good candidate for triggering full standards mode in IE8. ~fantasai
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