- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 23:27:47 -0400
- To: cbullard@HiWAAY.net
- CC: dgd@cs.bu.edu, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
>Users aren't idiots. Belief in the lowest common denominator made >the mess we are trying to fix. That seems to be a real dividing >belief in this group: some think we are fixing SGML, some think >we are fixing HTML. I think we are trying to get our freedom back. Which is precisely why DTD's should be optional, but certainly allowable. As Len rightly notes, a large group of people will *need* validation. I can think of many examples in my own work where it would be at the very least useful, and I'm not under contract to myself ;-)
Received on Friday, 25 October 1996 23:30:11 UTC