- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:26:58 +0300
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Jul 12, 2006, at 18:04, Philip TAYLOR wrote: > Following the advice/guidance from L David Baron at : > > http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla%27s_DOCTYPE_sniffing That document does not give advice on how to trigger the Standards Mode. The document tells what Mozilla does. > my recent Dreamweaver templates have all used the following DOCTYPE : > > <!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> > > which is intended to force Mozilla into "Full Standards" mode, That is not the best practice for triggering the Standards Mode. The best practice is documented here: http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/#choosing (I will revise my advice to include the HTML5 doctype when HTML5 advances enough to be appropriate for widespread deployment.) > since we wish to avoid accidentally exploiting any of Mozilla's > "Almost Standards" behaviours. It appears that you want to DTD-validate as Transitional but you also want to specifically avoid activating the Almost Standards Mode. Why do you want to be Transitional? You do realize that it is pretty hard to accidentally rely on the difference between the Standards Mode and the Almost Standards Mode unless your layouts involve placing sliced images in layout tables? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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