- From: Lee Daniel Crocker <lcrocker@calweb.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 20:32:27 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
> >readable/writable language? Most poeple who hand write do it > >litterally to make sure that when the rules NEED to be broken they can > > They NEVER *need* to be broken IMHO. Of course they do. If you want clean information, you have to take out things like physical markup and put them in style sheets-- but then your code won't validate, because the "CLASS" attribute is not part of any existing DTD. Of course we all know it will be in the next one, but for now, you can write cleaner code by violating the standard than by following it, and should, IMNSHO. I also sympathize with complaints that HTML is 10 times more complex than necessary, hopelessly ambiguous, unparseable, based on a spec that isn't even legally publishable on the Web, and not as expandable as it could be. That doesn't mean I advocate ignoring it, but let's not sweep all the complaints under the rug and call the complainers uneducated; let's fix it.
Received on Tuesday, 24 September 1996 23:39:35 UTC