This page shows proportion of pages using quirks mode
for sites submitted to this service. Pages using quirks mode are becoming less common:
under 30% of pages today, compared with more than 40% in 2008.
Quirks Mode Pages
Percentage of pages with quirks mode DOCTYPEs.
What is Quirks Mode?
Older web pages don't usually meet W3C standards, so browsers have to display
them using "best effort". This often contradicts W3C standards, so modern
browsers display pages using two methods:
- Standards Mode - documents with an HTML 4.01 or XHTML
DOCTYPE are displayed in standards mode. Standard mode pages tend to look
quite similar between different browsers (but not always identical).
- Quirks Mode - documents with an older DOCTYPE (or without
a DOCTYPE) are displayed using quirks mode. Quirks mode pages tend too look very
different when displayed on different browsers.
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