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quirks mode

technique used by web browsers to maintain backwards compatibility with older web pages
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quirks mode

Summary

quirks mode is a compatibility mode[1]. It draws 62 Wikipedia views per month (compatibility_mode category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • quirks mode's instance of is recorded as compatibility mode[3].
  • quirks mode's copyright license is recorded as Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International[4].
  • quirks mode's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07tb7x[5].
  • quirks mode's official website is recorded as https://quirks.spec.whatwg.org/[6].
  • quirks mode's described at URL is recorded as https://quirks.spec.whatwg.org/[7].
  • quirks mode's source code repository URL is recorded as https://github.com/whatwg/quirks[8].
  • quirks mode's standards body is recorded as Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group[9].
  • quirks mode's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[10].
  • quirks mode's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 151082098[11].

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Designation and Status

quirks mode's instance of is recorded as compatibility mode[3].

Why It Matters

quirks mode draws 62 Wikipedia views per month (compatibility_mode category, ranking #1 of 1).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . api.github.com. Retrieved . api.github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . api.github.com. Retrieved . api.github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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