Posted by dorayme on 06/12/06 22:55

In article <i6ljg.2104$Yq.1951@reader1.news.jippii.net>,
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:

> 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.

The very presence of something does things, but not because of
its internal capacitiies. A large man comes into a class of small
unruly students. He is a very knowledgeable man and the students
could learn a lot from him. But all this passes right over their
head. He is big and they behave themselves, at least they shut up.

--
dorayme

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