- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 08:56:27 -0400
- To: jon@hackcraft.net, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
At 10:42 AM +0100 10/24/03, jon@hackcraft.net wrote: >> Application developers have taken years to get CSS sort of vaguely >> right, though some have certainly put more effort into it than others. >> It's pretty obvious, however, that this isn't an easy task. DOM interop >> has faced similar problems, with similar results. > >Whereas HTML and HTTP are universally supported perfectly? They're supported far better and much more interoperably with much greater success. A large part of that is because not everyone has to do the same thing thing with the same syntax. If you send correct HTML syntax, pretty much any browser or HTML-aware process can do something reasonable with it, where the definition of reasonable of course varies to fit local conditions. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA
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