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Re: HPR 3.04 - IE7 - WinXP - Complete Doctype

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From: Rainer Wagener
Date: Mar 8, 2007 2:00PM

Jan Hunt wrote:

> Now the weird thing is that NOT ALL web pages caused HPR
> to freak. I did
> some investigating and it turns out that if the web page uses an
> incomplete or no doctype then HPR reads along fine, but
> add a complete
> doctype to the page and the problem is triggered.

I think this behaviour is due to the fact that IE 7 without proper
doctype behaves completely like IE 6 in "quirks" mode, apart from
zooming. Basically I think that IE 7 when put in "quirks" mode _is_
IE 6.


Rainer

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