I understand what you're saying.  But let's say for the moment I tend to
think the no-doctype rendering is how it's supposed to look (which I of
course don't)....wouldn't the assumption be then that if one were to use the
doctype, that its appearance would therefore be uniform throughout the
browsers that support that doctype (Netscape 7, Mozilla 1.3 and IE 6)?  And
if so, why then would IE 6 render it completely different than the other
two?

No matter whether you use the doctype or not, it all seems to be degrees of
quirkiness, which brings me to the ultimate (and off-topic) question:  why
use doctypes at all if they are still not treated equally among even the
latest browsers that allegedly support them?


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Jones" <dvjones(at)ksbe.edu>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: CSS problem using XHTML doctype.


> To me, it depends on which you consider the "normal"
> node to be. If you tend to think - not saying that you do,
> but some folk do - that a browser's "quirks" mode
> rendering is how it's supposed to look, then adding the
> DOCTYPE and seeing the "unquirked" rendering means
> there's something wrong, and the problem is the
> presence of the DOCTYPE tag, not with the browser's
> "quirky" rendering. Hope I'm getting this across clearly
> enough, running seriously low on sleep at the moment
> ...

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