Closed Bug 269366 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

different results if leave out HTML Transitional DTD URL

Categories

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: HTML Parser
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: pete, Unassigned)

Details

example a) <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> example b) <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> If I leave out the URL of the DTD for HTML 4.01 Transitional, as in example a), headings using <h2>, <h4> etc (I haven't tested the rest) are smaller than those displayed when including the URL as in example a), when viewed in Firefox 1.0RC2 and Mozilla 1.8a4, but not IE 5.0. In IE 5.0 they're the same larger sizes no matter whether using example a) or b). Tables also differ, they have stronger borders and lots more white space when using example a) (my tables use border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0") This doesn't have any effect if HTML 4.01 Strict is used and it's URL for the DTD omitted; In that case it looks the way the Transitional does if you leave in the URL Mozilla Composer 1.8a4 doesn't add the URL in example a) Not sure but possibly related to bug 218818 Examples of a page of mine using example a) is at http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/windows/software.html
the url switches between quirks and almost standards mode http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/doctypes.html
so I'm seeing my document rendered in quirks mode, which is intended to imitate Netscape 4, which looks wrong. I should instead use Strict mode and convert old documents to a strictness I understand now but didn't when they were originally written Its a shame I originally copied my DOCTYPE declaration from that used by Mozilla Composer. I've now voted for bug 92525 Shall I mark this bug a dupe of bug 92525? or INVALID?
marking invalid, better than voting is fixing Daniel will probably be very happy about new contributors :-)
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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