- From: Kevin Berkheiser <KBerk@Bigfoot.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 20:25:11 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Comments anyone? -----Original Message----- From: ptorr@vantsys.com.au [mailto:ptorr@vantsys.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 18:27 To: Kevin Berkheiser Subject: RE: The Browsers and Validation Hi Kevin, >Perhaps the useragents can read the doctype to determine weather to enforce >standards in the rendering. At least then, authors could write HTML 4 >tables for example as long as they used the HTML 4 doctype. If a Netscape >table was used, the they should not use the HTML 4 doctype. The trouble is that people are putting out HTML 4 documents now that adhere to the HTML specification (in so far as they are syntactically correct) but are using "fudges" to make tables (and other items) look "correct" in the non-standard browsers. So even this approach will not work. Maybe the browser could use this as a heuristic (and ask the user what to do), but I still think there needs to be some manual over-ride, possibly coupled with a new META tag or something. Of course, any new META tag would be open to abuse just as the rest of the spec is now, but anyway... Peter ________________________________________ Peter Torr, Applications Developer Vantage Systems - Making Time Pay http://www.vantagesystems.com.au
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