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IE and DOCTYPEs (hilarious)

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Aug 08.2004

IE will go into standards mode if it simply sees the string [font=courier]<!DOCTYPE[/font] at the very beginning of a document. No joke. It doesn’t even read the external DTD information or even care what version of HTML or XHTML you’re using. Take for example:

[code]<html>
<head>
<title>untitled</title>
<meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″>
<style type=”text/css”>
div {
width: 50%;
margin: 0 auto;
border: solid #000 1px;
background: #eee;
padding: 1em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>test</div>
</body>
</html>[/code]

Notice the omission of the DOCTYPE. This [i]will not[/i] center the element in IE6 due to it not being “standards compliance mode” (I use this term loosely here). Now, add the following line at the top of the document:

[code]<!DOCTYPE IE-SUCKS-HARDCORE>[/code]

Let me know what happens. :rolleyes:

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@MstrBobAug 08.2004 — Wow... that's funny, true, and really, really, really sad...
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@Daniel_TAug 08.2004 — Haha.. but I guess one could expect that sort of thing from IE...
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@Robert_WellockAug 11.2004 — The text string [i]<!DOCTYPE[/i] is all that the slacker browser reads.
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@buntineAug 11.2004 — haha. How did you work that out? Just playing around?
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@johndoe190Aug 11.2004 — What a joke IE is and yeah how did you find that out.
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@CharlesAug 11.2004 — To make matters even worse MSIE will read the rest of the DOCTYPE, and even properly resolve external entities, but only if the document name has an "xml" extension.
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@Khalid_AliAug 11.2004 — [SIZE=4]IE Rocks...[/SIZE]

?

Have you guys ever seen a bug in IE?

have you ever seen any OS level vulnerabilities which could be exploited just using darn JavaScript...

comon all..

And I don't even want to start on how rock stable ActiveXControls are..heheheh

[SIZE=4]IE Rocks...[/SIZE]

if it weren't for IE how would we have out laughters on and off
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@Stephen_PhilbinAug 12.2004 — Just when ya think yer estimation of IE couldn't possibly get any lower..........
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