Re: [PATCH] Standards and Quirks Modes
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.
And if you want to test other browsers, test page (only in english,
only front page) can be found at
<URL:http://jt3-172.tky.hut.fi/debianwww/index_doctype>.
But of course I think it is really good thing to go towards more
standards compliance, it would be still nice to apply. Rendering
changes are not bad even there is some. Maybe something could be made
to render tables better without "quirks mode"?
I would like to hear comments from other people working on website
also, I'm just translator so I dare not do this kind of changes
alone. :-)
BTW, I've tested cascading stylesheets a little with Debian's web
pages. Maybe some of you want to comment on that too. At the address
<URL:http://jt3-172.tky.hut.fi/debianwww/index_css> the logo and
mirror selection are layed out with very simple css instead of one
table, which is currently used.
--
Tommi Vainikainen
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