Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:100451 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 70004 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2017 17:03:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Sep 2017 17:03:00 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 62.180.109.77 unknown Received: from [62.180.109.77] ([62.180.109.77:12532] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id E2/E4-10715-1CB71B95 for ; Thu, 07 Sep 2017 13:02:58 -0400 Message-ID: To: internals@lists.php.net References: <8C.6B.10715.4A4A0B95@pb1.pair.com> <1E.30.10715.1EE31B95@pb1.pair.com> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 19:02:54 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 62.180.109.77 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Consider only ignoring newlines for final ?> in a file From: gmblar@gmail.com (Andreas Treichel) > I always assumed that this is the reason why we do this in the first place. I think the main reason was that old versions of ie go into quirksmode if the doctype is not in the first line of the output e.g.: