[UPHPU] Swift: a web browser for Windows
Alvaro Carrasco
alvaro at epliant.com
Wed Aug 2 13:13:30 MDT 2006
Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
>> The main thing that i notice when i add the doctype is that sites
>> start looking more similar in both browsers.
>
> "quirks mode" just means (for all intents and purposes) not using a
> doctype. No one should be producing (X)HTML without a doc type so this
> should be irrelevant. It's 2006, not 1999. MSIE's bug-set may be less
> in strict than not, I would not consider it a "fix." The bugs that I
> listed in a previous post are ones that I fight using strict mode.
>
>
> Look at this chart:
>
> http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/
>
>
> SIE can't do strict. It doesn't know how.
>
>
>
> Another good resource: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/quirksmode.html
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It may be 2006, but plenty of sites don't have doctypes:
www.google.com
www.quirksmode.org
and some of them have a screwed up doctype:
www.microsoft.com (of course)
www.uphpu.org
www.thinkgeek.com
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