On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 16:48, Tommi Vainikainen wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, alexander.winston@comcast.net wrote: > > The Debian Web pages all use the document type declaration > > '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">,' > > which, while not invalid, is considered bad form and fails to > > trigger standards compliance mode in Internet Explorer and Mozilla > > (Gecko, really) derivatives. > > I tested this doctype patch locally and rendering changes quite a lot. > Here is screenshots with Gecko (Mozilla 1.5 from Debian unstable): > > <URL:http://www.iki.fi/thv/tmp/debian-www/gecko-now.png> > <URL:http://www.iki.fi/thv/tmp/debian-www/gecko-doctype.png> > > See especially the blue box on the left. Personally, I see these these rendering changes as basically nil, unless the author of the pages wanted explicit control over the elements that shifted only a handful of pixels.
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