Re: Current Version of HTML? from Jim Ley on 2003-10-31 (public-evangelist@w3.org from October 2003)

From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:36:02 -0000
To: <public-evangelist@w3.org>
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"Karl Dubost" <karl@w3.org>
>HTML 4.01 is where the last version of the semantics has been defined
>and so the semantics for HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0  are defined in the
>HTML 4.01 specifications.

Okay, trying to be simple so there's no ambiguity:

Is XHTML1 HTML?

>http://www.w3.org/TR/html doesn't define a conformant link to a dtd or
>whatsoever.


It's a link to what the HTML 4.01 Rec defines as "the current version of
HTML"  The DTD is not the only arbiter of what is valid in a HTML document
(for example prose limits the checked attribute to input type=radio or
type=checkbox, something which even the W3 homepage chooses to ignore)

Jim.

Received on Friday, 31 October 2003 07:42:15 UTC