Hello there Lee and Joe this is Bo.
My question for your guys this morning is about modules putting comments above the doctype line and as a result causing my browser to go into quirks mode instead of standard compliance dispite having a doctype.xml file in the file system of the skin.
Here is a snippet of my code at the top of my dnn page that goes into quirks mode
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<!--BannerDisplay module, Copyright (C) 2006 Smoke Ranch Software (
http://www.smokeranch.com)--><!--BannerDisplay" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.smokeranch.com)--...nerDisplay" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.smokeranch.com)--...nerDisplay" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.smokeranch.com)--...nerDisplay" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.smokeranch.com)--...nerDisplay module, Copyright (C) 2006 Smoke Ranch Software (
http://www.smokeranch.com)--><!--BannerDisplay" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.smokeranch.com)--...nerDisplay" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.smokeranch.com)--...nerDisplay" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.smokeranch.com)--...nerDisplay" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.smokeranch.com)--...nerDisplay module, Copyright (C) 2006 Smoke Ranch Software (
http://www.smokeranch.com)--><!--BannerDisplay" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.smokeranch.com)--...nerDisplay" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.smokeranch.com)--...nerDisplay" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.smokeranch.com)--...nerDisplay" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.smokeranch.com)--...nerDisplay module, Copyright (C) 2006 Smoke Ranch Software (
http://www.smokeranch.com)--><!--BannerDisplay" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.smokeranch.com)--...nerDisplay" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.smokeranch.com)--...nerDisplay" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.smokeranch.com)--...nerDisplay" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.smokeranch.com)--...nerDisplay module, Copyright (C) 2006 Smoke Ranch Software (
http://www.smokeranch.com)-->
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Notice where the doc type line is placed do to the banner display module putting there comments above it. I don't know if you would have any idea of how I could tweak this or if you have seen some modules do this before and cause a browser to go inot quirks mode as a result. Other pages that use the skin which do not have this module instantiated on the page come out of quirks mode and turn into standards compliance simply because by deleting the modules it takes out the comments at the top of the page hence allowing the doctype to be the true first line of the document and hence no quirks mode.
I have contacted the vendor for this module hoping they had a quick fix for this version of the module as their module is like $200.00 and I inherited it with the site I am currently working with so can't or don't have any order number etc... that would give me a discount for their latest version of the module and their module is like $200 to buy so it isn't the cheapest purchase in the world.
The module works fine other wise but this pushing browsers into quirks mode is no good as other modules I have become problematic in this mode as well as some javascript functionality, css spacing, etc...
Any ways thought I'd give you guys a shout to see if you had any insight in case it takes the software vendor of my module eons to get around to answering my email.
Take care,
Bo