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Posted by Neredbojias on 06/12/06 02:35
To further the education of mankind, dorayme
<doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> vouchsafed:
> 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.
The url within the dtd prevents quirks mode behavior in ie6 but that's all
I've ever seen happen.
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Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.
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