Sent by Andrew McFarland on 9 April 2002 14:02
At 13:39 09/04/02 -0400, Plagiarist.com wrote:
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>Browsers are unpredictable enough as it is - what is the advantage of
>"tempting fate" to trigger a browser's quirks mode? An excuse for sloppy
>coding?
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Unfortunately, you sometimes need the elements and attributes that are
missing from, the strict DOCTYPE. Netscape 4, for example, doesn't like
changing an image with JavaScript if the image has a name instead of an id.
In those circumstances it is usually easier to use the transitional version.
I've also encountered programmers who hard code the DOCTYPE into a perl
module rather than leaving it for the template. In those circumstances,
politics and human nature come into play.
Andrew
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