Re: standard out of the box (was: IE Blog: Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone)

On Dec 20, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Federico Bianco Prevot wrote:

> You could be using DOCTYPE as every other major browser does, and  
> if that happen to break a web application or page, (which has the  
> right DOCTYPE but expect a non-standard mode to work well), you  
> could solve it in this way:
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> Keep a list of sites the user wants to display in quirks mode no  
> matter what. With a simple add button or menu item "Revert to  
> quirks (or conservative or whatever you want to call it) mode for  
> this site".
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> This would easily solve large organizations' web applications and  
> intranets problems.

That puts the onus on the user to make a choice in order to get the  
right rendering, and it may not always be obvious to them which mode  
to be in for maximum compatibility or rendering fidelity. I would  
rather give that choice to the author.

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> This strangely reminds me of Firefox's IE tab extension philosophy.
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> On Dec 20, 2007 11:51 PM, Paul Nelson (ATC) <  
> paulnel@winse.microsoft.com> wrote:
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> If large users don't rapidly convert their content because it would  
> cost them millions of Dollars or Euros and a large amount of time,  
> a measured approach to migration is the best course to take. My  
> guess is that because a number of large organizations are involved  
> in the W3C they are moving eventually.
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