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 
...

David
dvjones(at)ksbe.edu

On 15 Apr 2003, at 21:34, Mike Taylor wrote:

> Except the quirks I'm experiencing are occurring only when
> the doctype is there, not the opposite.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Jones" <dvjones(at)ksbe.edu>
> To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 9:12 PM
> Subject: Re: CSS problem using XHTML doctype.
> 
> 
> > When you do a page without a DOCTYPE declaration,
> > most modern browsers go into what is called "quirks"
> > mode. IOW, they're free to act as however their
> > programmers (or bugs) direct them to do. I think you're
> > running into a difference between IE6 quirks and NS7
> > quirks (which might be different from Mozilla 1.3 quirks
> > or Opera quirks).
> >
> > David
> > dvjones(at)ksbe.edu
> >
> 
> 


 

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