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Post #243,365
by drewk
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2/3/06 1:28:45 PM
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New What they should be doing
IE 6 defaults to what is now called "quirks mode". You can add a doctype to specify "strict mode".

IE 7 should default to strict, allowing a doctype to specify quirks.


This way, anyone who is intentionally writing to IE 6 quirks mode can use a doctype to specify this. Anyone trying to write to current standards will be automatically supported.

From your snip, it looks like thie may be what they're saying. Now if your site is intentionally writing to the IE 6 quirks mode, what exactly would you have MS do in IE 7 to make your site work the way you'd like? I'm no fan of MS, but I don't see how else they could deal with this.
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Post #243,367
by tuberculosis
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2/3/06 1:35:26 PM
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New Its a Beta
And hence its reasonable for things to look broken.

This is the time for site owners to adapt. If they keep this strategy, most people will never ever see the benefits of the fixes.

Also, even quirks mode stuff will benefit from the CSS fixes (which is most of what there are). Much of it is adding support for CSS that IE 6 doesn't implement or implements wrong (and so isn't used).




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     IE 7 - (tuberculosis) - (32) - Feb. 3, 2006, 01:18:26 PM EST
         What they should be doing - (drewk) - (1) - Feb. 3, 2006, 01:28:45 PM EST
             Its a Beta - (tuberculosis) - Feb. 3, 2006, 01:35:26 PM EST
         Perhaps they'll fix the parser as well? - (ChrisR) - (27) - Feb. 3, 2006, 07:31:55 PM EST
             Working as intended? - (altmann) - (25) - Feb. 3, 2006, 08:12:38 PM EST
                 Sounds semi-reasonable - (ChrisR) - (24) - Feb. 3, 2006, 11:23:33 PM EST
                     I'll look into generating a better error - (tuberculosis) - (23) - Feb. 7, 2006, 02:43:28 PM EST
                         If your life had a soundtrack - (drewk) - (22) - Feb. 7, 2006, 02:47:07 PM EST
                             perhaps something in a more recent decade - (cforde) - (21) - Feb. 7, 2006, 11:55:47 PM EST
                                 Hah! Soon as I saw subject I started hearing that in my head -NT - (drewk) - (15) - Feb. 8, 2006, 09:32:36 AM EST
                                     You guys suck -NT - (tuberculosis) - (14) - Feb. 8, 2006, 04:12:35 PM EST
                                         Doesn't sucking create a vortex? -NT - (drewk) - (13) - Feb. 8, 2006, 06:43:13 PM EST
                                             Depends what you're sucking. -NT - (Meerkat) - (5) - Feb. 9, 2006, 05:52:44 AM EST
                                                 and the Viscosity -NT - (boxley) - (4) - Feb. 9, 2006, 08:36:41 AM EST
                                                     BDMDOONAOKMAM! - (folkert) - (3) - Feb. 9, 2006, 08:56:50 AM EST
                                                         whats so funny about the Nikuradse effect? -NT - (boxley) - (2) - Feb. 9, 2006, 06:05:55 PM EST
                                                             Answer. - (folkert) - (1) - Feb. 10, 2006, 11:02:35 AM EST
                                                                 nothing worse than poking someone with a stick - (boxley) - Feb. 10, 2006, 11:28:39 AM EST
                                             Ratt -NT - (tuberculosis) - (6) - Feb. 9, 2006, 12:55:24 PM EST
                                                 What - (tuberculosis) - (5) - Feb. 10, 2006, 11:19:48 PM EST
                                                     Sorry, they were too "hair band" even for me -NT - (drewk) - (3) - Feb. 10, 2006, 11:40:52 PM EST
                                                         I always had you down as a Twisted Sister sorta guy. -NT - (pwhysall) - (1) - Feb. 11, 2006, 05:46:58 AM EST
                                                             Well *they* rocked -NT - (drewk) - Feb. 11, 2006, 09:25:33 AM EST
                                                         Good guitar work. Liked them. -NT - (bepatient) - Feb. 11, 2006, 08:01:58 AM EST
                                                     prefered king rat -NT - (boxley) - Feb. 11, 2006, 10:20:00 AM EST
                                 Nice guys! - (imric) - (4) - Feb. 8, 2006, 09:33:17 AM EST
                                     s'matter? does he need - (cforde) - (3) - Feb. 9, 2006, 01:27:41 AM EST
                                         We are all ... - (drewk) - (2) - Feb. 9, 2006, 09:31:43 AM EST
                                             Hey, at least nobody's mentioned flushing yet. - (jake123) - (1) - Feb. 9, 2006, 10:06:56 AM EST
                                                 Recursive nausea ... I like it -NT - (drewk) - Feb. 9, 2006, 02:40:06 PM EST
             Code is broken, parser is fine - (tuberculosis) - Feb. 3, 2006, 11:55:33 PM EST
         It's shite. - (pwhysall) - (1) - Feb. 3, 2006, 11:46:05 PM EST
             ICLRPD x 2 (new thread) - (jb4) - Feb. 6, 2006, 02:04:21 PM EST

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