Sent by Big John on 29 September 2003 18:06
Sebastien wrote:
> What I didn't know was that it changed the style-sheet behaviour and
> this really puzzles me: as far as I know, such a header is useful to state
> the encoding. What's the link with CSS interpreting? I was aware of the
> !DOCTYPE switch, but not the xml prologue one.
The prolog throws IE6 into 'quirks' mode. Since that is not
the intention when using the prolog, it irritates a lot
of people. If you want IE6 to work like modern browsers,
you CAN'T use the prolog, period.
Big John
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