Re: FN-FORUM: css prob - Can IE6 cope with XHTML 1.0 Strict?

date posted 18th September 2007 18:05


On 18 Sep 2007, at 15:39, Mark Pawelek wrote:

>
> I noticed that you specified:
>
> XHTML 1.0 Strict
>
> I was under the impression that IE6 wasn't able to render that
> correctly and
> went into quirks mode when trying.
> So, I specify sites as HTML 4.01 strict, just so that I can get
> consistency
> from IE6.
>
> Is this the case? Or is IE6 actually able to render XHTML 1.0 strict
> without going into quirks?

it's not the doctype that puts it into quirks mode, but the inclusion
of the xml prolog that should be included for strict doctypes.

strictly speaking XHTML 1.1 strict should only be delivered as xml
and therefore IE6 will choke on it. the compromise is to use XHTML
1.0 strict without the prolog (and then its really just tag soup,
apart from the fact that if you validate it you can prove it's well
formed tag soup...

;o)

some schools of thought suggest that we really ought to be using
HTML4.0 Strict as that's the only widely supported standard that can
be delivered as text/html...