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firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #182227
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 182227

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Florian Zeitz (florian-zeitz) wrote :

Actually it's not only that the doctype is missing from http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/tmp/firefox-3-js-issue.html, but this page doesn't even have a root-element (should be a <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">-tag in this case).
http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Plots/plots-0.7.html has a root-element, but it doesn't specify the xmlns, which probably causes <bar />- tags to be misinterpreted.
I have had the experience that a doctype is not absolutely necessary in most browsers, but nonetheless it's required by the W3C specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/conformance.html#s_conform).
I think it is relatively likely that this is caused by quirks-mode. I have often had cases (mostly in IE that doesn't really like XHTML) where <script /> tags spanned the whole rest of the document, which lead to empty pages and other interesting results.