[cfe-dev] patch for auto show/hide macro expansion in CSS

Thu Apr 17 20:31:13 PDT 2008

Thanks Oliver!

On Apr 17, 2008, at 7:17 PM, Oliver Hunt wrote:

> XHTML doctypes are a very fast way to trigger quirks mode in those  
> browser that recognise xhtml (ie. not IE which will
> treat the doctype as nonsense and go into quirks mode anyway)
>
> Despite what the XHTML spec may say, xhtml served with a text/html  
> mimetype (needed for IE to even attempt
> to display the content) will be treated as html with a bogus doctype  
> -- eg. straight into quirks mode.
> For a local file to be detected as xhtml you'll need a .xhtml  
> extension (depending on platform and browser).
>
> In general the HTML5 doctype will trigger standards mode in most  
> browsers (Firefox, IE, Opera, and anything
> WebKit based) and that's very simple:
> <!doctype html>
>
> --Oliver
>
> On Apr 17, 2008, at 7:06 PM, Ted Kremenek wrote:
>
>> I think the goal is to be portable with the latest, standard  
>> browsers,
>> while still using the features of certain browsers if it makes life
>> easier and the results prettier (e.g., using the -webkit-*  CSS
>> properties for Safari).  If HTML4 is more current, than that's
>> probably what we should use, but I am not the expert here.  Anyone  
>> who
>> knows better on how the HTML should be formatted is more than welcome
>> to submit a patch.
>>
>> On Apr 17, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Nico Weber wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> I put an XHTML doctype in order to get the browser to be in  
>>>> standard
>>>> mode
>>>> (instead of quirk mode).
>>>
>>> I had the impression that XHTML is so 2006 and everyone is using  
>>> HTML4
>>> these days:
>>>
>>> http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml
>>>
>>> Main reasons are that Mozilla doesn't (didn't?) render XHTML pages
>>> progressively, and that next to no server serves XHTML files as
>>> application/xml+xhtml, so they trigger quirks mode.
>>>
>>> I might be wrong though.
>>>
>>> Nico
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