Comments on: First step in throwing your XHTML document into Quirks Mode

By: Chris Peters

Chris Peters — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:20:06 +0000

Aye. And the Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox gives you a bookmarklet for running the current webpage that you're looking at through the W3C validator in another tab.

By: Grant Copley

Grant Copley — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:50:24 +0000

For those that may not already know,the W3c Markup Validation Service is a great tool you can use to validate your documents and make sure they are correct. It's free and gives you the ability to enter in a page URL, upload a file, or direct input of your code. The link: http://validator.w3.org/

By: Chris Peters

Chris Peters — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:40:59 +0000

Maybe I was going a bit overboard with the Quirks Mode thing. I thought it was true at least with older browsers.

Either way, I think my point about not validating still rests.

By: freelance web developer

freelance web developer — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:05:14 +0000

Are you sure about this? Here is an example with two line break above the doctype and the page is rendering in SCM.
https://www.tat-co.com/
From my experience, you need more than just white space above the doctype to get it into QM. A HTML comment will do. I like to use
- Jules
PS – kudos for using tinMCE!

By: Chris Peters

Chris Peters — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:40:32 +0000

Aha, I wasn’t aware of the tip. Thanks for dropping a note Tony!