   Using HTML DOCTYPE identifiers, a discussion
  I know that if you identify a document as say XHTML 1.0 Transitional then IE will handle it as such.... but will it ONLY parse that page as XHTML 1.0 trans, or will it parse depricated and syntactically incorrect HTML as well? Is it faster at creating the page on screen if I tell it what it''s about to parse?   MindEngine Developmenthttp://medev.sourceforge.net
  I made an XHTML document. It validated perfectly here, and displayed perfectly in every browser I tried except Internet Explorer. Stupid IE. If I lied and said it was text/html, IE would display it, but then every other browser displayed it wrong. It was a very annoying experience. [edited by - smart_idiot on February 4, 2004 2:41:14 PM];  Hm... I''m having that same problem, only in reverse. I declare it as text/html and it works fine in IE, but firebird seems to be having problems now. What is the alternative type to text/html for xhtml?   MindEngine Developmenthttp://medev.sourceforge.net;  In theory the correct type to use is ''application/xhtml+xml'', but IE seems to think otherwise. ;quote:Original post by smart_idiot  In theory the correct type to use is ''application/xhtml+xml'', but IE seems to think otherwise.   True, IE also has many CSS issues. Were IE my child, I would drown it.   I Want My Island"The same people who so greatly oppose slavery, so much that they are willing to kill over it... have just forced me to fight the battle for them."- Robert (I Want My Island) ;  *sigh* I wanted to use XHTML but apparently IE has some issues with this and from what I''ve read, sending XHTML as text/html is essentially the same as throwing the parser "tag soup." Might as well just use HTML 4.01 then? :-/   MindEngine Developmenthttp://medev.sourceforge.net;  Unfortunatly, yes. ;  smart_idiot: All your test showed was that it doesn''t work with MSHTML, but with Opera''s renderer and with Gecko. Even though you''ll have to get out of Windows for at least some, there are other HTML renderers you should test with, such as KHTML (which, imho, sux). ;  Okay, so 3 of them use the same engine. Does that mean I''m biased? (Don''t answer that!) ;quote:Original post by coldacid  smart_idiot: All your test showed was that it doesn''t work with MSHTML, but with Opera''s renderer and with Gecko. Even though you''ll have to get out of Windows for at least some, there are other HTML renderers you should test with, such as KHTML (which, imho, sux).   If it doesn''t work in windows, then, quite frankly, it doesn''t matter. Windows has the greatest market share, and, surpirisingly enough, this means that most people accessing his site will be using windows.   I Want My Island"The same people who so greatly oppose slavery, so much that they are willing to kill over it... have just forced me to fight the battle for them."- Robert (I Want My Island) 