Posted by Toby A Inkster on 01/06/08 13:21

Tim Roberts wrote:

> The odd thing is that they are going to include a switch: you can either
> set it in Acid2 mode, or you can set it in IE7-with-all-the-warts mode.
>
> I can guess which option will be the default, and it won't be the one
> that breaks compatibility with existing IE-specific web sites.

Yes, but this is not a configuration setting, but a switch much like
quirks mode / strict mode that's already been in Windows IE since version
6.0 (and Mac IE since 5.0). The user won't be responsible for turning on
standards mode -- the author will be able to do so using some sort of HTML
syntactical nuance.

(From the language they've been using to describe it, it seems likely that
it's not another DOCTYPE-based switch but will more likely rely on a meta
tag or HTTP header.)

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