Is Dreamweaver 8's validator unreliable? I'm finding so..

[David Dorward]

While I agree with the general advice to use Strict, I wouldn't want
to over-state the case.

[ snip good points ]

.... and a comment before the Doctype (no matter what Doctype that is) will
trigger Quirks mode in some browsers.

 

[Alan J. Flavell]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, David Dorward wrote:

[ re. quirks versus standards modes...]

... and a comment before the Doctype (no matter what Doctype that
is) will trigger Quirks mode in some browsers.

Indeed.

In fact, I've seen MSIE confuddled in various exciting ways, merely by
a generous quantity of white space before it got to seeing any pointy
brackets.

cheers

(serves it right for deliberately violating RFC2616...)