>>DOCTYPE switch and web design

A lot of people don’t know that the DOCTYPE switch in your web page can have a profound impact on how your page layout works. For example, the CSS Box Model will look different in WinIE 6 depending on the DOCTYPE switch. If you are doing web design today, make sure the browser you are targeting is not rendering in quirk mode.

Here is a great table of all the different effects DOCTYPE switch has on some different browsers.

文章来源:http://weblogs.asp.net/omars/archive/2004/02/19/76569.aspx