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One prominent difference between quirks and no-quirks modes is the handling of the CSS Internet Explorer box model bug.Before version 6, Internet Explorer used an algorithm for determining the width of an element's box which conflicted with the algorithm detailed in the CSS specification, and due to Internet Explorer's popularity many pages were created which relied upon this non-standard ...
Internet Explorer 8's main rendering mode, known as standards mode, has improved support for various web standards, especially CSS, compared to Internet Explorer 7 and earlier versions. [ 60 ] The web standards supported by IE8 include the following:
The release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 revealed that many web sites do not work in this new standards mode. Microsoft maintains a list of websites that have been reported to have problems in IE8's standards mode, known as the compatibility view list.
But that's not all: Microsoft announced today that the next version of Edge will come with an Internet Explorer mode, allowing you to run older websites that don't support modern browser tech.
Internet Explorer uses DOCTYPE sniffing to choose between standards mode and a "quirks mode" in which it deliberately mimics nonstandard behaviors of old versions of MSIE for HTML and CSS rendering on screen (Internet Explorer always uses standards mode for printing).
The software firm has started enabling enterprise features in Edge's Dev builds, most notably the vaunted Internet Explorer mode. If a company absolutely needs IE 11 to visit a legacy site, you ...
Internet Explorer in "quirks mode" includes the content, padding and borders within a specified width or height; this results in a narrower or shorter rendering of a box than would result following the standard behavior. [15] The Internet Explorer box model behavior was often considered a bug, because of the way in which earlier versions of ...
In Internet Explorer 10, HTML conditional comments are not supported when the page is in standards mode (document mode 10). [2] JScript conditional comments were introduced in Internet Explorer 4, and they continued to be supported in Internet Explorer 10, in standards mode or compatibility mode.