Next message: Philip TAYLOR: "Re: Flagging & in URL in HTML 4.01 transitional type."
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:09:12 +0100 (BST)
From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
To: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
cc: mike@minivend.com, Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>, www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0106221502020.5108-100000@phaestos.ee.surrey.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Flagging & in URL in HTML 4.01 transitional type.
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Terje Bless wrote:
> On 08.06.01 at 23:57, Mike Heins <mheins@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> >[...] Yet why do we have an HTML 4.01 transitional spec, and an HTML 4.01
> >strict spec?
>
> For the same reason that a C compiler has a "-ansi" or "-posix" switch. The
> "-pedantic" or "-Wall" switch is a bit different.
real programmers will be the first against gcc -Wall when the
revolution comes.
> ...the Validator can do nought but enforce the specification as it exists.
> The proper way to deal with this is to get in touch with the HTML Working
> Group at the W3C and raise the issue there.
...waving your corporate membership of the W3C as you do.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/HTML-WG/
it's been closed since 1996. Which explains a _lot_.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
warbles on about all that xhtml junk; I doubt anyone still cares about
HTML per se.
L.
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