David Dorward wrote:
C A Upsdell wrote:
Actually, the MS quote refers to strict mode only.
What quote? The referenced page refers to Standards mode and Quirks mode.
Which one is used depends on Internet Explorer looking at the Doctype and
juging the author's ability based on their choice of Doctype - and it isn't
so simple as Strict or Transitional.
The quote is from here, about IE7:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/3/9.aspx
The quote is "We will continue to improve our compliance under strict
mode even when it breaks compatibility, and under quirks mode when it’s
not damaging to our backwards compatibility."
Note that transitional is not mentioned.
Perhaps transitional will support fewer standards than strict?
That makes little sense.
Hey, we're talking about Microsoft here. Does it have to make sense?