Re: Using XPointer with HTML

"Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@w3.org>

> Cool. I take Jim's point that this is not exactly a quick way to
resolve the
> problem - but the basic problem is that people are using old systems
when
> there are new ones available which work for almost all the
applications, and
> work better. Getting people to upgrade is really a slow solution, so
pointing
> out why some things run extra slow when people are waiting might help a
bit.

There are systems which actually understand XHTML? I assume you're
talking about the broken support in Mozilla, a beta browser which is not
accessible to me, and my needs aren't particularly demanding (and doesn't
support the SVG plugin...)

> "Please be patient while we are checking the server to deal with your
HTML
> code. Did you know that you could do the same things with XHTML and
avoid
> making your clients wait for this service? Have a look at
> http://example.org/how-to-make-good-code"

That would be a simple lie, There are very few people on the web using
clients that understand XHTML, and there are none which even claim to
that are available for 2 of my platforms.

Jim.

Received on Wednesday, 10 April 2002 14:48:52 UTC