|  | Posted by dorayme on 06/12/06 00:24 
In article <FQ0jg.1524$uR5.1082@reader1.news.jippii.net>,"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
 
 > Michael Laplante <nowhereman@twilightzone.net> scripsit:
 >
 > > In the absence of a doctype declaration, what do browser do?
 >
 (1)
 > Popular browsers go to "quirks" mode, i.e. intentionally misbehave.
 
 
 and
 
 (2)
 > Contrary to what you seem to believe, and what some authorities might seem
 > to be telling you, browsers do not actually change their behaviour according
 > to the document type declaration. For example, if you declare a Strict
 > doctype, they don't start ignoring elements and attributes that do not
 > belong to the Strict version.
 
 What you might mean is that they do change their behaviour but
 not in every respect.
 
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 dorayme
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