HTML 3.2 PR: Miscellaneous + typos -Reply

I agree with nearly everything Galactus said.  A few exceptions:

>>> Arnoud Galactus Engelfriet <galactus@htmlhelp.com> 11/17/96 12:03pm >>>
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>In the section on the BODY element, the text states that the 16 color names
given
>are widely understood. It is my experience that not all user agents which
>understand body colors also understand the color names, and those that do do
not
>always use the same color values. I would suggest that the specification at
least
>recommends the use of color codes instead of  color names.

Well, some browsers understand colors for backgrounds without understanding
colors for text or links.  It's been my experience that these (like, say, 
NCSA mosaic) don't understand color names.  

If you use "background=#000000 
text=#ffffff" on these browsers, you'll get black text on a black background 
(which "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe" book had the black car with the 
black trim and the really really black piping?) If you use "background=black 
text=white" you'll get black text on a grey background, which still isn't what 
you wanted, but it's legible.

>The section on BLOCKQUOTE notes that block quotations are often rendered as
>indented text. Is such a note necessary? It often leads to confusion about the
>purpose of this element -- on Usenet, I see daily claims that
><BLOCKQUOTE> is the "indent tag".

  CSS! CSS! CSS!

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>In the section on IMG it should be noted that currently only GIF, JPEG and
>PNG images can be inlined. 

What about "sometimes PNG".  Do the latest MSIE and NS Nav. support PNG yet?

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>In the section on APPLET:
>
>   [on the contents of this element]
>   browsers ignore this extra HTML code. You can use it to show a
>   snapshot of the applet running, with text explaining what the applet
>   does. Other possibilities for this area are a link to a page that is
>   more useful for the Java-ignorant browser, or text that taunts the
>   user for not having a Java-compatible browser.
>
>While I agree with the concept of encouraging people to use the contents of
APPLET
>to provide an alternative, something like "Click here to download a
Java-enabled
>browser" should never be recommended in a specification. What if the user _has_
a
>Java-compatible browser (or OS) but has turned this off for security reasons?

Or because it keeps crashing his system and/or corrupting his 
b-tree?

>The term "Java-ignorant" suggests that having Java support is somehow better
than
>not having it. Would something like
>
>   Other possibilities for this area are a link to a document that
>   presents the content of the document without the requirement
>   for Java support.

Or an image map, as in the case of webmonkey (www.webmonkey.com).

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>Galactus who will now update his reference to adhere to the latest version :-)
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Received on Monday, 18 November 1996 14:47:24 UTC