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Re: Doctype changes for % dimensions
Mickael Therer 2005-Oct-21 22:18:00
caroling,
the stripped link provides the information on loose, why it kills vr
display in firefox (mac) remains a mystery but you're safe to go
without it.
-m
--- In #removed#, Caroling Geary <#removed#> wrote:
>
> A few months ago we were talking about problems getting widths and
> heights specified in % to display correctly in Firefox or other
> browsers on some platforms. Marcus, I think you mentioned the doctype
> on the web page could affect them. I've been changing my doctypes
> from this:
> <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.01 transitional//en"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
>
> To this:
> <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.01 transitional//en">
>
> Suddenly I'm wondering what that loose.dtd is intended to achieve. Or
> rather, what functionality am I losing by removing it? Will other
> browsers have even worse problems than before?
>
>
> Caroling Geary
> www.wholeo.net
>