- From: Dave Carter <dxc@ast.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 16:43:29 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Jim Wise <jw250@columbia.edu>
- cc: Subir Grewal <subir@crl.com>, HTML Discussion List <www-html@w3.org>
On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Jim Wise wrote: > Designing pages for HTML 3.0 is no better than designing pages for Netscape > or MSIE. It is a non-standard, and has no particular base of support > among existing browsers, and no reasonable expectation of succh support > in the future. The single great advantage of designing pages in HTML, > and the reason for HTML standards to exist, is the ability to view your > content on any platform. HTML 3.0 simply does not support this goal. > At least HTML 3.0 is a defined DTD, and there is some browser support, Arena, udiWWW and Emacs-W3 support various bits of html 3.0. Its not as cross platform as I would like, but its certainly more cross-platform than MSIE. Dave Carter
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