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2. Sites which don't begin with <!doctype html> are non-conformant HTML, so rendering them in quirks mode is entirely reasonable IMO.
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2. Sites which don't begin with <!doctype html> are non-conformant HTML, so rendering them in quirks mode is entirely reasonable IMO.