[thelist] IE6

[Peter Kaulback]

In the wee hour of 09:55 AM 8/29/01 +0000, Peter-Paul Koch bequeathed such 
tales as these:

>>>Yet another browser with New Features!!
>>>
>>>Yes they implement the dreaded CSS Box Model correctly.
>>
>>They finally got CSS1 right! It's nice to see Microsoft
>>play by the rules (at least in this area).
>
>Small fry. The real question is: does it support position: fixed? If it 
>doesn't all CSS1 stuff is worthless, because position: fixed is the only 
>way to truly new implementations (for instance,  a frame-like page with a 
>fixed navigation, combining the advantages of frames and noframes).
>
>As to the box model, I still support the original MS implementation: it's 
>much more intuitive than W3C's recommendation. Of course this doesn't help 
>a bit, we'll have to steer between the various browsers.
>
>>Now let's all use the <!DOCTYPE..> in our pages to trigger
>>W3C-compliancy.
>
>I'm afraid it won't be so simple. IE6 and NN6 have their own, separate 
>implementation of DOCTYPEs and their own bugs. I'm afraid we're forced to do
>
>if (ns)
>  document.write('<!DOCTYPE etc>');
>else if (ie)
>  document.write('<!DOCTYPE etc>');
>
>Mark my words, doctypes are going to cause a godawful lot of cross-browser 
>trouble.
>
>ppk

So PPK, as a newcomer to including doctypes in pages I'm curious to know 
what trouble they might cause and what problems they may already pose.
Peter Kaulback