On Sun, 2012-10-21 at 08:43 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > I recently came across something similar where Firefox and Chrome > rendered the same page differently. The cause was not the browser but > the page. As well as not-so-brilliantly written pages, where authors haven't really known what they're doing, properly, there are sites with conditional tests that deliberately give different page content to different browsers. They do that in the pages, the stylesheets, and even the web server. > If a page does not have a valid <doctype> a browser will fall back to > a thing called *quirks mode* which is different across browsers. > (When they say quirks they are not kidding.) Yeah... ;-/ So called quirks modes being the original way the browsers behaved, as the browser authors thought they ought to work, plus all their errors. As opposed to when they started paying attention to the HTML/CSS/scripting specifications, to produce standard results. Some effects are subtle, like a slightly different margin around the page in one mode versus the other, that's barely noticeable. To noticeable, and annoying, differences in every element on the page. I gave up trying to pander to MSIE's (pronounced misery) foibles, years ago. These days, I just write according to HTML specifications, check I haven't overlooked something stupid in normal browsers, and to hell with how things look due to any "quirks" introduced by the misery browser. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
