Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 06/12/06 21:35

dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> scripsit:

> What you might mean is that they do change their behaviour but
> not in every respect.

No, I meant what I wrote; I usually do. I was a bit vague though; I often
am. In the absence of a doctype declaration, popular browsers go to
"quirks" mode. Browsers do not actually change their behaviour according to
the document type declaration (and here I forgot to add:) in any sense that
has the slightest connection to what the declaration _means_ in SGML or XML
terms.

Perhaps I should have clarified that they play a (silly) game with the
doctype declaration but won't even read the document type definition that it
refers to.

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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