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by petee 1041 days ago
So no real use, got it. Luckily IE 9 has been gone for awhile

My point was its silly because the html self-defines being html the second you open the <html> tag, because what else could it even be?
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ElectricalUnion 1041 days ago
> So no real use, got it.

If you don't care your site potentially becomes unusable broken shit outside of the specific browser you develop it on, there's no real use.

https://quirks.spec.whatwg.org/

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petee 1041 days ago
I'm mistaken then; from the block you copy and pasted I misread it to suggest only IE 9 cares about quirks. In my personal use I'd never seen it matter cross-browser before

That said, HN works fine.

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mcaruso 1041 days ago
Of course HN works fine, if it didn't work fine it'd be fixed by now. "Working fine" is an extremely low bar for any site. As a developer you will still want to avoid quirks mode because it just makes your life harder for no reason.
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tzs 1041 days ago
What if the document has omitted the <html> tag?
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