- From: Brad Neuberg <bkn3@columbia.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:30:35 -0700
At 09:04 AM 4/26/2005, Jonny Axelsson wrote: >On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:00:14 +0200, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote: >>Lachlan Hunt wrote: >>>Henri Sivonen wrote: > >>>>What should text/html flavor conformance checkers say about <foo />? >>>>Silently treat as <foo>> as per SGML? >>> Yes. >> >>What useful purpose would be served by doing so? > >HTML never became a SGML application, and though SGML was believed to be >on the verge of taking over the world in the middle nineties that never >happened. There is no benefit in my opinion for a modern spec to include >counter-intuitive SGML features that made sense at the time (or rather in >a SGML universe). Neither would SGML dependency be desireable. +1. When will people stop pretending that HTML is not SGML (it's also not currently XML)? It has developed into its own technology with its own set of practices. >>I'm inclined to choose 3. >Seconded. > >-- >Jonny Axelsson, Documentation, Opera Software ASA Brad Neuberg, bkn3 at columbia.edu Senior Software Engineer, Rojo Networks Weblog: http://www.codinginparadise.org ===================================================================== Check out Rojo, an RSS and Atom news aggregator that I work on. Visit http://rojo.com for more info. Feel free to ask me for an invite! Rojo is Hiring! If you're interested in RSS, Weblogs, Social Networking, Java, Open Source, etc... then come work with us at Rojo. If you recommend someone and we hire them you'll get a free iPod! See http://www.rojonetworks.com/JobsAtRojo.html.
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