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So no real use, got it. Luckily IE 9 has been gone for awhile My point was its silly because the html self-defines being html the second you open the <html> ta

by petee 3y ago

So no real use, got it. Luckily IE 9 has been gone for awhile My point was its silly because the html self-defines being html the second you open the <html> tag, because what else could it even be?

ElectricalUnion 3y ago
> So no real use, got it. If you don't care your site potentially becomes unusable broken shit outside of the specific browser you develop it on, there's no real use. https://quirks.spec.whatwg.org/ https://quirks.spec.whatwg.org/
- petee 3y ago
  I'm mistaken then; from the block you copy and pasted I misread it to suggest only IE 9 cares about quirks. In my personal use I'd never seen it matter cross-browser before That said, HN works fine.
  - mcaruso 3y ago
    Of course HN works fine, if it didn't work fine it'd be fixed by now. "Working fine" is an extremely low bar for any site. As a developer you will still want to avoid quirks mode because it just makes your life harder for no reason.
tzs 3y ago
What if the document has omitted the <html> tag?