[pmwiki-users] DOCTYPE suppression is that bad?

Thu Jul 27 19:17:37 CDT 2006

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 01:48:25AM +0200, kirpi at kirpi.it wrote:
> So, putting together your precious suggestions I opted to restore the
> original DOCTYPE for all browsers *but* IE. This way Mozilla,
> Opera,... users will get the right document and the working
> javascript, while IE users will get a working javascript and a
> DOCTYPE-less document, plus an invitation to download Mozilla. If
> something goes wrong for them, it will be their problem, after all
> it's them who insist on using IE although there are better browsers
> ready at hand...
> This is the code I inserted at the top of the template (adjusted to
> English here):
> 
>      <!--[if IE]>
>      <small>Using Internet Explorer might create problems.
>      Please download and install
>      <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/">Mozilla</a>: it will
>      take just 3 minutes of your time.</small>
>      <![endif]-->
> 
>      <![if !IE]>
>      <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
>      <![endif]>

You should probably have that the other way around, since the DOCTYPE
needs to be the first thing in the document.
I'm also not sure how the non-IE browsers would react to statements such
as
        <![if !IE]>

Kathryn Andersen
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