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quirks mode
noun
A technique used by some web browsers to maintain backward compatibility with older web pages that do not comply with modern standards. When such a page is detected, it is rendered in the older, non-standard way.
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If the XML declaration is included, the page is displayed in quirks mode in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (this is a bug).
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Find quirks or actions for your characters.
Then there's the macro-mode quirk.
O'Malley is that rare artist who works in confessional and speculative modes simultaneously; his world may have fantastical quirks in it, but it also has quotidian heartbreak.
Some of the camera's quirks are useful; for example, after the customary 10-second beeping in self-timer mode, the camera takes three photos, one second apart, just the way Uncle Joe probably would when shooting the posed family.
There are other quirks.
But quirks in the weather temperatures teeter-tottering above and below freezing, snow at the top of the courses and rain at the bottom, and fog that has interrupted training have thrown crews into full scramble mode.
EVERY inauguration has its quirks.
Each had its quirks.
Evangelicals have their quirks.
Davidson has its quirks.
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