- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:30:14 +0300
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Jul 13, 2006, at 16:21, Philip TAYLOR wrote: >> 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". You can't just "rely" on the Standards Mode taking care of what you are doing. The Standards Mode is not an enforcement mode. If you are doing the right thing with CSS, the Standards Mode will render it correctly (subject to bugs). However, if the Standards Mode is rendering something the way you want, you can't know for sure that you aren't relying on non-standard or buggy behavior that will get fixed. As for the Almost Standards Mode vs. the Standards Mode, the difference is that in the Almost Standards Mode vertical alignment of images works differently, which matters if you have sliced images in table cells. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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