- From: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 13:33:35 -0700
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org
Pris Sears asks: > Is there anything useful this group can do to rein in Netscape-isms? Yes. Beat on browser developers to support processing instructions (use them if they understand them, ignore them if not). PIs are an SGML-compliant way to extend functionality that does not require modification of the DTD. If PIs are supported, new tags are not required, e.g.: <?netscape-begin-blink>blinking text<?netscape-end-blink> As HTML 2.0 is supposed to be an SGML application, browsers that do not handle PIs properly (that is, they display the PIs as though they were text) are not in compliance with the HTML 2.0 spec. Regards, -- Terry Allen (terry@ora.com) O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Editor, Digital Media Group 101 Morris St. Sebastopol, Calif., 95472 A Davenport Group sponsor. For information on the Davenport Group see ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/davenport/README.html or http://www.ora.com/davenport/README.html
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