[UPHPU] Swift: a web browser for Windows

Alvaro Carrasco alvaro at epliant.com
Wed Aug 2 12:21:20 MDT 2006


Mac Newbold wrote:
> Aug 2 at 12:14pm, Alvaro Carrasco said:
>
>> The switch is not something that user's do, developers make that 
>> switch by adding a doctype to their html, so that shouldn't be 
>> something else to worry about since if you switch it on, you only 
>> need to develop for 'standards compliant' IE, not 'quirks mode' IE.
>
> Ah, well that's good. I haven't messed with that much yet. So what are 
> the magic doctypes that change MSIE behavior, and which leave it the 
> same?
>
> Does anyone know how they affect Firefox or Safari rendering?
>
> Mac
>
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> Mac Newbold        MNE - Mac Newbold Enterprises, LLC
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>
Here they are:
http://alistapart.com/stories/doctype/

Firefox also has a 'quirks mode' and a 'standards compliant mode' but 
they're not very different at all.
I don't know about safari.

The main thing that i notice when i add the doctype is that sites start 
looking more similar in both browsers.

Alvaro


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