Closed Bug 279725 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Fictitious DOCTYPE triggers Standards compliance mode

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: jens, Assigned: bugzilla)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

The site http://www.bit-informationsdesign.de/ triggers Standard compliance mode
though using a fictitious DOCTYPE, namely:

  <!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 transnational//EN">

Observed using Firefox 1.0 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0) but also using Mozilla 1.7.1 (Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://www.bit-informationsdesign.de/
2. Context menu: View page info
3. Render Mode information
Actual Results:  
Render Mode: Standards compliance mode

Expected Results:  
Render Mode: Quirks mode
This is intentional; see bug 55264.
it's also behaviour documented at
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/doctypes.html
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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