xml before the doc type causing IE6 to go into quirk mode

[wschaepe]

Your template generator inserts this line before the doc type declaration.
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'. $iso[1] .'"?' .'>';

But in doing that, IE6 goes into quirk mode and the page does not render correctly in the IE6 browser window. It is full left. It is fine in Firefox.

If I remove it, the page renders correctly.

One of the forums recommends removing it. The forum is:
url=http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,6048.0.html

Any thought on this?

Regards,
wschaepe

[admin]

This issue has been around from the Mambo days to Joomla.
I’m aware of the issue and the thread and a few others. It’s a tricky issue because it falls into that table-less table issue.

Now Joomla is not 100 Percent table-less I don’t think it should be . It would make making templates a nightmare with positioning, Floats and z-index etc. To control variable size data not only for content com’s but also for modules and third party apps.

Plus in older versions of Joomla the template will not render.

In a somewhat future release I’ll just add code logic to switch this code based on some parameters
of the browser versions but this will take some testing out do to the above issues.

So in short I guess no ; ).

I have to say one thing that I’m sure people will get into this camp or that camp.
I use CSS/layouts styles etc. a.k.a table–less when its use full.

“TLD” short for table–less design.

Has a lot of great features but a lot B.S as well.
In my opinion you write three times the amount of code ie. ‘hacks’ then in well design table layouts.
Then when a new browser upgrade comes around then 2X3 = 6 for code re-writes.

Tables are like the glue of of the net. Their like a VW that never dies .

There’s a place for both in a good mix but not this all or nothing.

Cheers,
Brian