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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