That's the way every other multi-rendering-mode browser works, yes. Not good enough for IE8, apparently.
The rationale is that, since all the other browsers (including IE6/7) started doing it that way, even the IWA's (or their tools, on their behalf) started putting DOCTYPEs everywhere, which means it's allegedly not a guarantee any more.
I don't agree with that, but, that's their argument.
IIRC, most other browsers, even with a doctype in place, flip out of standards mode when they hit egregiously bad markup - horribly mis-nested tags, three body elements, that sort of thing.
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Date: 2008-02-05 19:41 (UTC)The rationale is that, since all the other browsers (including IE6/7) started doing it that way, even the IWA's (or their tools, on their behalf) started putting DOCTYPEs everywhere, which means it's allegedly not a guarantee any more.
I don't agree with that, but, that's their argument.
IIRC, most other browsers, even with a doctype in place, flip out of standards mode when they hit egregiously bad markup - horribly mis-nested tags, three body elements, that sort of thing.