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<!DOCTYPE html> and older browsers

Does <!DOCTYPE html> trigger standards mode for older browsers as well? Saying "in all modern browsers" isn't very precise.

I am especially interested in IE6.

Thank you.

Solution

  • This is how the HTML5 doctype came into existance (in layman's terms):

    The guys who make the standards wanted a simpler doctype. They found out that <!DOCTYPE html> (which is as simple as it gets) does trigger standards mode in browsers. They decided to standardize it in HTML5.

    True story.