[Rails] Re: Re: Re: Forcing rails to output HTML4 rather then XHTML?

Walter Davis wrote in post #957346:
> On Oct 26, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Robert Walker wrote:
>
>>> that this is a bad thing.
>>
>> I'm asking because I don't personally use any version of IE, much less
>> IE 6. I'd really like to know if IE 6 actually has problems rending
>> HTML
>> 5 markup.
>
> I haven't tried it myself,

Nor have I.

> and I upgraded my test machine to IE8 at
> the beginning of the summer, but I believe that it treats it like "tag
> soup" and ignores any tag that it doesn't understand. That is, it
> shows the content of that unknown tag, but it doesn't apply any
> special meaning to the tag. It would likely be Quirks Mode all the way
> down, definitely not something that looked like you cared about that
> browser, but it would be readable in the sense that all the words
> would be there.

That would be my guess as well.

>
> Walter

Best,
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