- From: Arnaud Le Hors <lehors@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 15:02:35 +0200
- To: Dave Carter <dxc@ast.cam.ac.uk>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Dave Carter wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Arnaud Le Hors wrote: > > > > I am very disappointed and alarmed at the inclusion of Netscape's 'frame' > > > construct within the draft HTML4.0 specification. > > > > > > I wish to express, in the strongest terms, my concern that frames should not > > > be allowed to enter the rulebook of standard HTML. > > > > I just would like to point out that the "standard HTML" is what the W3C > > members want it to be. > > -- > > Arnaud > > And who are they and who appoints them?? W3C "is open to any organization which signs a membership agreement." [http://www.w3.org/Consortium/] > W3C is not a standards body under > any international agreement that I know of. I never meant otherwise and this is why I had put quotes around "standard HTML"... > ISO is the standards body, and > when they get around to issuing it, ISO-HTML will be "standard HTML". No > body that is prepared to put <FRAME> in a standard and not <MATH> should > be entrusted with standards. First, beware that W3C is working with ISO. Second, Maths are important enough to W3C that it has a Working Group for it [http://www.w3.org/Math/]. Third, it's up to ISO members to decide what should go or not in ISO-HTML, just as it is to W3C members to decide what goes in HTML 4.0. But realize that many companies out there are actually members of both organizations. -- Arnaud
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