Re: HTML 4.0 in Netscape and Explorer

Somebody wrote to the list:

> The general trend on the W3C's mailing lists is that HTML is now frozen, 
> [..]

And someone else replied:

> > I don't think that HTML is truly final. Some tags are deprecated in
> > 4.0, which only has meaning if there will be future versions in which
> > these tags may or may not be removed.

Then on  4 May 98, Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang wrote:

> Well, you have HTML 4.0 Transitional, which makes use of the depreciated
> tags, and HTML 4.0 Strict, which doesn't.  So in a sense, the version
> where they are to be removed has already been released.  

Yes and no. There are still disagreements about what should be 
deprecated (some feel that B and I elements should be left as for legacy 
purposes, for instance). And there are a few "minor" attributes to be 
tweaked along with some of the finer points in the DTD (like why do 
SCRIPT and NOSCRIPT have difference contexts?)..



Rob