Re: [bug #35543] add DOCTYPE to HTML output

[Václav Zeman]

On 2012-02-16 23:44, address@hidden wrote:
> I have noticed on monotone documentation uses too small fonts. It
>     turned out to be a problem with standards vs quirks mode. It 
> appears
>     that adding a DOCTYPE to the generated HTML fixes this. The 
> attached
>     patch does just that.
>
> Thanks for the report and patch, but ...
>
> I can only surmise it's actually a problem with the browser and/or if
> something special is being done by monotone.  The HTML we generate is
> (intentionally) very plain and there is no reason why it should be 
> "too
> small".  It isn't for me, in general.
The problem is not in Monotone docs. The problem is that when an HTML 
document does not have DOCTYPE then it gets rendered by most browsers in 
a quirks mode. This mode sort of follows what IE did do and one of the 
(many) differences between quirks and standards mode is font size.

> In any case, the development code does generate a doctype, so I guess 
> we
> can hope that whatever is going on will be fix itself eventually.

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VZ