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#39 √ duplicate

Prototype does not support browsers in Quirks mode

Reported by John-David Dalton | April 23rd, 2008 @ 12:06 PM | in Inline documentation

Please state in the documentation, somewhere prominent, that Prototype does not support browsers in Quirks mode.

Comments and changes to this ticket

John-David Dalton April 23rd, 2008 @ 12:07 PM
- → State changed from “new” to “doc”
Juriy Zaytsev April 23rd, 2008 @ 03:01 PM

John,
How difficult would it be to support quirks mode?
John-David Dalton April 23rd, 2008 @ 03:06 PM

Quirks mode support would be a huge PITA.
Considering the box model is all screwed up in quirks mode,
all of the Demensions and Position methods would have to be forked.
Maybe added as an optional adapter js.
For now I think its reasonable to just include the proper doctype,
but some devs don't have a choice.
Nick Stakenburg April 23rd, 2008 @ 03:36 PM

I wouldn't waste time on that, it's a lot of work, not worth it imo. A bit of documentation should take care of this.
Juriy Zaytsev April 23rd, 2008 @ 04:56 PM

I see.
Well, documentation it is, then.
Kenneth Kin Lum April 25th, 2008 @ 12:33 PM

in what aspects does Prototype not support Quirks mode? can we support some major ones and ignore the rarely used ones?
Andrew Dupont April 27th, 2008 @ 12:50 AM

Anything related to dimensions or positioning will do things incorrectly in quirks mode (at least in IE) because of the different box model. (Depending on how well it emulates IE's quirks mode, Opera might exhibit some of these problems as well.) Everything else, as far as I know, would work just fine.
John-David Dalton May 16th, 2008 @ 08:31 AM
- → State changed from “doc” to “duplicate”
John-David Dalton May 16th, 2008 @ 08:33 AM

This ticket is a roundabout duplicate of http://prototype.lighthouseapp.c...