- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:21:41 +0100
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: www-validator@w3.org
Henri Sivonen wrote: > That document does not give advice on how to trigger the Standards > Mode. The document tells what Mozilla does. I did append "/guidance" after "advice" to cover other interpretations. The introductory prose says "The following trigger full standards mode:" which I think one might reasonably interpret as "guidance" if one wishes to trigger 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 Thank you : I will consult that reference immediately. >> 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? I don't "want" to be; I am forced to be, because my co-developer is still using deprecated combinations of elements and attributes. > 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? Not sure how to interpret this last, but I don't want to "rely on the difference", but rather "rely on full standards compliance". Philip Taylor
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