Re: validator result query

On 26 May 2011, at 14:22, <teamkilimanjaro1@gmail.com> <teamkilimanjaro1@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I recently ran the Validator for my site ( http://www.teamkilimanjaro.com ) and the tool informed me that: “The Unicode Byte-Order Mark (BOM) in UTF-8 encoded files is known to cause problems for some text editors and older browsers. You may want to consider avoiding its use until it is better supported”.
>  
> Do you have any idea when it will be supported by all browsers? Or do I need to act now and make the changes?

Assuming http://www.ianhoar.com/2008/05/31/why-do-my-pages-trigger-quirks-mode-in-ie6-or-ie7/ is currect, it will trigger quirks mode (which is undesirable) in IE 6 and 7. AFAIK, they have fairly significant marketshare between them.

-- 
David Dorward
http://dorward.me.uk