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by zagrebian 1041 days ago
> Then there is the <doctype> thing which may seem like a lot of bullshit, I don’t know how it now but years ago it did make a difference because if you didn’t have it browsers would go into a compatibility mode with old web pages.

This is still true. Browsers run HN in quirks mode. Just open the devtools console in Firefox, and it will tell you.