worklog

Via webstandards the details on IE7’s fixes to microsoft’s implementation of CSS are out at the IE blog. Of particular interest to me is this: ”

<?xml> prolog no longer causes quirks mode

Cool, does not having it cause quirks mode for IE7? Because right now, since IE6 is idiotically implemented such that an <?xml> prolog does cause quirks mode, help.unc.edu strips the prolog to make sure that IE6 goes into standards mode - quirks mode causes wierd border issues and spacing. I’m glad that now I’ll have to sniff browsers once again…

Today help.unc.edu had some problems. Some of the documents were causing Cocoon to spin out into space and never return. The cause? Well, the DOCTYPE declaration on the top of some of the xhtml fragments that we pre-publish. The W3 site was down (www.w3.org) and Cocoon was trying to get the XHTML transitional dtd from that site.