- From: Steven D. Majewski <sdm7g@virginia.edu>
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 20:40:16 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@www0.cern.ch
Both Mosaic and Lynx currently ignore any tags they don't understand. ( probably the only reasonable things right now, considering the relatively undefined state of HTML ) They also both seem to ignore any parameters they don't understand. ( like "<CODE LANG=C>" for example. ) Is this behaviour likely to continue, and be considered the "RIGHT THING" to do ? I would like to include other custom non-HTML markup in my HTML documents. I could use comments, <!-- My-Markup-Tag -->, but will that prevent my easily using other SGML tools on that text? I would think that it would be desirable to be able to consider HTML documents as a subset of other SGML markedup text - which would imply that proper programs ought to accept non-standard tags. But, if we want to reserve space for *standard* HTML extensions, then I can see that a standard might want to leave undefined tags "undefined" - i.e. not guarantee any semantics including non-interpretation. Should the <X-*> namespace be reserver, as in mime and rfc822 ? ( That doesn't seem to be a better solution to me. ) -- Steve Majewski (804-982-0831) <sdm7g@Virginia.EDU> -- -- UVA Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics -- -- Box 449 Health Science Center Charlottesville,VA 22908 -- [ "Cheese is more macho?" ]
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