On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 10:12:00PM +0100, Erik Moeller wrote:
Since this
does not include the URL to a full DTD, the curse of doctype
sniffing sees most browsers render the page in "Quirks" or "Bugwards
compatible" mode rather than "strict" mode. In the interests of making
wikipedia accessible, I think it would be better to force strict mode -
then editors would be more likely to notice markup errors which affect the
rendering on browsers which do not correct for bad markup.
Why don't we just let the people using such browsers send us bug reports?
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Because it's better if we just do The Right Thing from the beginning.
Jonathan
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