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xml prologue and CSS

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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