Re: HTML 3.2 PR - lists
Chris Lilley (chris@w3.org)
Wed, 13 Nov 1996 14:38:40 +0100
To: www-html@w3.org
From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
Subject: Re: HTML 3.2 PR - lists
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 14:38:40 +0100
Message-ID: <3289CF60.167E@w3.org>
To: Foteos Macrides <MACRIDES@SCI.WFBR.EDU>
Foteos Macrides wrote:
> Repeated requests in this list, accompanied by sound reasoning,
> that at least PLAIN be restored in the W3C's HTML 3.2 DTD have met with
> unresponsiveness, and, utterly simple though <i>it would be</i> for all
> clients ...
(My italics). Yes, it would be simple, and the reason you used the
future
tense rather than a past tense is, presumably, that current UAs do not
implement a PLAIN on UL.
Thus, it is not in the HTML 3.2 DTD, nor is other good stuff like
stylesheets - because HTML 3.2 represents a backward looking, current
practice (as of, say, February this year) DTD. It's a formalisation of
where we start from, not where we are going.
--
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