[thelist] XHTML and Netscape 6

[Jim Dabell]

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On Wednesday 13 November 2002 11:28 pm, Peter-Paul Koch wrote:
> >Everytime I use an XHTML declaration, it break up the design see
> >http://dev.headsup.ctsg.com/about/
>
> At the moment the design is not broken in Mozilla 1.1 . Actually,
> comparing it to IE6, I can find only very minor differences.
>
> More in general: if doctypes give you trouble, just remove them. Nothing
> bad will happen.
>
> The problem with doctypes is that every browser vendors (IE Win, IE Mac
> and Mozilla) has thought up its own version of 'doctype switching' and
> 'strict rendering'. Of course these versions are completely incompatible,
> so the doctype that works in one browser will break the other. Therefore
> my general advice is not to use doctypes.

Are you joking?   This guarantees that you will be in quirks mode, and
guarantees incompatibility.  At least with standards mode, they are all
aiming at the same thing (e.g. the box model in ie6 is fixed, and matches
mozilla, opera and konqueror).

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Jim Dabell


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