IE and the truth about comments - Part 2
In draft form
Now this page is really falling apart in IE 8 because Internet Explorer does not support true XML. IE 8 sees my XML declaration as just another comment so some errant comment between the XML declaration and the doctype now throws IE 8 into quirks mode.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- oh no an errant comment -->
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
No other browser has such a quirks mode and this page look perfectly fine in other browsers but IE 8 is a disgrace. The question could be asked is this what backwards compatibly is all about? Is this what Dean Hachamovitch was suggesting by Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8. Will IE ever support true XML or this page doomed to look the same in any future version of IE?
More to come .... oh yeah you may need this link back to my Internet Explorer Bugs page.
Created: 21 Mar 2008.
Updated: 23 Mar 2008.