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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