- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:04:42 +0300
- To: Patrick H.Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Apr 23, 2007, at 18:54, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > > Quoting Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>: > >> We don't have implementations of HTML 4.01. If it seems like we have, >> it is an illusion. As a major point, HTML 4.01 is supposed to be an >> application of SGML but none of the top 4 browsers (or top whatever) >> implement it as an application of SGML. > > So why can't they, especially now that they're obviously talking to > each other to get WA1 out the door? SGML parsing is incompatible with real Web content. The most prominent example is that the XHTML 1.0 Appendix C stuff relies on content not really being parsed as SGML. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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