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: > > 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". > > 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. > > > This strangely reminds me of Firefox's IE tab extension philosophy. > > On Dec 20, 2007 11:51 PM, Paul Nelson (ATC) < > paulnel@winse.microsoft.com> wrote: > > 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. > > > > > >Received on Friday, 21 December 2007 17:26:16 UTC
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