[Docutils-users] Re: HTML body

[Felix W. <Fel...@gm...>]

Michael Foord wrote:

> I slightly misstated the problem. The XML declaration puts IE 6 into
> 'quirks mode' - because the page doesn't start with a doctype.

Does this cause trouble somewhere?

I'd be willing to do some investigation, but I don't have IE.  Could you
print test/functional/expected/standalone_rst_html4css1.html with and
without XML declaration to a PDF (or PostScript) file and upload it
somewhere or send it to me (so I can upload it)?  I could then
graphic-diff the two files.

> See, for example, http://www.w3.org/International/articles/serving-xhtml/

Omitting the XML declaration by default seems like a bad idea since that
page says: "Note that if you decide to omit the XML declaration you
should choose either UTF-8 or UTF-16 as the encoding for the page."

Instead we should find the places where IE's quirks mode causes
bad/wrong rendering and try to fix it in the CSS file.

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