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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 06/12/06 10:39
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Frank Olieu wrote:
> "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote in
> news:FQ0jg.1524$uR5.1082@reader1.news.jippii.net:
>
> > [snip] browsers do not actually change their
> > behaviour according to the document type declaration.
>
> Don't you mean: browsers *do* actually change their behaviour according to
> the document type /declaration/, but *not* according to the Document Type
> /Definition/ that the /declaration/ refers to?
It makes no difference to their parsing of HTML. I think that's the
point that Jukka was referring to.
> The document type /declaration/ does trigger a change in behaviour
> (going for quirks or standard mode)...
But that's a change in behaviour with reference to their
interpretation of CSS - whereas the DTD. in theory, is only about the
syntax of HTML. So that's a difference in at least two dimensions!
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