I’ve been coming down with a head cold over the past few days, but it looks like it’s finally overtaking me. I was going to finish writing up some stuff and put it online, but I’m just going to sleep instead. In the pipe: why Mozilla is the best browser available, essential windows productivity tools, contemporary web design thoughts, my review of NNG’s Sitemap study.
Oh, I was looking at JZ’s new <forward compatibility> page for his new book. The Mozilla/strict mode trick seems handy, although I’ve never had to use it. If you’re going to validate w/ HTML 4.x, why use tables? Actually, this would be less of a problem if there were different modes for Transitional and Strict rendering, but alas, that’s not how it works. I first saw David Baron’s site back in 1998 or so (more nostalgia). I remember being impressed by his CSS header.
For those interested in what Mozilla quirks mode actually does, DB has written docs for web developers on mozilla.org. BTW, the method I use for compatibility if I must use tables, is to trigger quirks mode by not using a system identifier, which seems like a much better solution if you’re going to be kludging your page with tables for layout anyway.
On this note (which took longer than I expected), I’m heading off to bed.