Doctype And Older Versions Of HTML

ecchi · 2016-02-10, 04:16 AM

Yes but without the declaration it processes most Javascript perfectly, so why not all Javascript? Also the declaration I am making does not tell it what version of HTML I'm using, I simply added:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>

Which basically says "I'm using some kind of html, but I'm not going to tell you what version - work it out for yourself", which the browser already knew from the .html file extension.

ecchi · 2016-02-15, 03:54 PM

I was given the answer over the weekend. If anyone wants to know:

It was not the Javascript, it was "div id=" which was the problem. Apparently IE8 knows some HTML commands that were not instigated when it was created, but had been mooted. If it is not fed a HTML type, it sticks strictly to the HTML that was official when it was released (which I think was HTML 3). However it takes "!DOCTYPE html" to mean "follow all HTML notification you know" so using this gets it to accept a few later HTML commands.

2016-02-10, 04:16 AM	#1
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	Yes but without the declaration it processes most Javascript perfectly, so why not all Javascript? Also the declaration I am making does not tell it what version of HTML I'm using, I simply added: Code: <!DOCTYPE html> Which basically says "I'm using some kind of html, but I'm not going to tell you what version - work it out for yourself", which the browser already knew from the .html file extension.

2016-02-15, 03:54 PM	#2
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	I was given the answer over the weekend. If anyone wants to know: It was not the Javascript, it was "div id=" which was the problem. Apparently IE8 knows some HTML commands that were not instigated when it was created, but had been mooted. If it is not fed a HTML type, it sticks strictly to the HTML that was official when it was released (which I think was HTML 3). However it takes "!DOCTYPE html" to mean "follow all HTML notification you know" so using this gets it to accept a few later HTML commands.