Posted by Chaddy2222 on 06/19/07 07:38

On Jun 19, 4:31 pm, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> Sub titulo Re: ie issues
> scripsit Chaddy2222:
>
> > Well, the fact that your HTML dos not even validate means that you are
> > throwing UA's into quirks mode,
>
> No, validation has nothing to do with it. Going to Quirks Mode is based on
> "DOCTYPE sniffing", which means looking for a string of particular kind at
> the start of a document. If there is no such string, or it does not match
> one of very specific patterns, then Quirks Mode, here we come.
>
> For a document that does not specify any document type, there's even no
> concept of validation. You can still use a validator so that you tell it to
> imply a document type declaration, but that means validating a document
> different from your actual document. And even then, the result of validation
> has no impact on the choice of Quirks vs. "Standards" Mode.
>
But what about if the document in question has a full document type
(which has the URL) but the document still has errors. Would a
standards conforming browser not pass the HTML and notice it has
errors and render it accordingly. I always thaught that the web
browser would try and correct the rendering of a document if it had
errors.
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