HTML 5 Doctype and IE 6
I often see this doctype declaration on some pages that I am viewing <!DOCTYPE html> I made some soft research and this is HTML 5 doctype declaration. Modern browsers can interpret this and would force to operate on Standards Mode. My question is, some of my target users are still using IE6. How will IE6 responds when I declare such doctype declaration.? Will I gain any benefit or loss in that case? Thanks. Short answer: the HTML5 doctype works fine in IE6. Longer answer: see Henri Sivonen's comprehensive research of the effects of different doctypes on different browsers. There are no