[thelist] The WaSP Returns
Tom Dell'Aringa
pixelmech at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 10 16:08:00 CDT 2002
You know what - Zeldman has some darn good points. I'll tell you what web coders need,
particularly those new to the role, or lazy (read myself) coders.
Standards Based Coding 101, by <your name here> available at evolt.org
So...who's going to write it? I need to start studying that thing...
/tom
--- Chris Kaminski <chris at setmajer.com> wrote:
> and this time, they're after us:
>
> <http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53026,00.html>
>
>
>
> <tip type="IE 6 DOCTYPE switching">
>
> If you're having trouble sorting IE 5.x from IE 6/standards mode, and using
> XHTML for your pages, you can insert an XML declaration before the doctype:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
>
> This will give IE 6 the same bad habits (i.e., non-standard box model) as
> IE5.x/Win because IE 6 will only go into 'standards mode' if the DOCTYPE is
> the very first thing in the file, even though putting an XML declaration
> before the DOCTYPE is the only legal place for it in an XHTML document.
>
> </tip>
>
>
> chris.kaminski == ( design | code | analysis )
>
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