- From: Mike Batchelor <mikebat@clark.net>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 22:16:07 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org
Jack Beslanwitch once wrote... > > Mike, > I could be wrong about this, but I seem to remember that the body > background elements including the text colors elements implemented in > Netscape are in the html 3.0 dtd or at least one of them that I read. The > main elements that are clearly not in the dtd are blink and embed. Again, I > could be wrong on this, but I believe this to be so. I just checked the DTD again, and the only BODY attribute is background, which indicates a URI for a texture tile for the document background. No text colors, link colors, vlink colors, etc. Yet the NCSA WinMosaic pages say they all are part of HTML v3. > > At 08:26 PM 7/17/95 -0400, you wrote: > >I submit the following with a slight sense of alarm. NCSA is claiming > >that Netscape <BODY> attributes are part of HTML v3. Go to the link this > >person specifies and see for yourself. Follow the link on that page to > >the sample background images and see some more mis-information. Somebody > >ought to go smack the WinMosaic developers upside da haid. A lot of > >people look the NCSA as a group that knows what they are talking about > >when it comes to the Web. > > > > ---from comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows--- > >I asked this at the authoring.html group, but I never got an > >answer. > > > >in the NCSA Mosiac final beta release notes at: > >http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/WinMosaic/Docs/RnotesFB.htm#HTML > > > >there are note on attributes for the body tag to change the colors > >in a document. These appear to resemble Netscapes extensions. > > > >I cannot find similar attributes in the HTML 3 spec at: > > > >http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html3/docbody.html > > > >So, the question is: are these attributes real HTML? or did NCSA > >play follow the leader to Netscape? > > > >Does anyone know if NCSA plans to implement style sheets ever? > > > >C h a r l e s P e y t o n T a y l o r ctaylor@nps.navy.mil > >The opinions and views expressed ## even though we're on our own, > >are my own and do not reflect ## we are never all alone, > >Those of the Naval PostGraduate School ## when we are singing, singing. > > ---end excerpt--- > >-- > > %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/ %%%%%% > > > > warlock@warlock.seanet.com (Jack Beslanwitch) > http://www.seanet.com/Users/warlock/conventions.html > Science Fiction Conventions Northwest home page > (206) 723-9906 > -- %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/ %%%%%%
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