a DOCTYPE is all it takes
At a lunch conversation about quirks vs standards mode, the question was raised: but what if you don't have those kinda important tags such as <html> or <body>? is this going to be quirks mode?
Well, the following test case shows that a DOCTYPE is all it takes in order to have standards mode rendering. Was this a Cinderella song: "We all need a little DOCTYPE, just a little helper, ooh and it will be alright" 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> hello <script type="text/javascript"> alert("Quirks? " + document.compatMode); </script>
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November 17th, 2010 at 10:26 pm
with HTML5 its just