- From: Scott E. Preece <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 21:00:58 -0500
- To: smishra@cc.gatech.edu
- CC: www-html@w3.org
| From: Sunil Mishra <smishra@cc.gatech.edu> | Netscape has never cared about SGML, and probably never will. As far as I | know, that is completely broken SGML. Although Netscape never did specify | this, the <font> tag could cross paragraph boundaries, such that if you put | a <font ...> in paragraph 1, and put in </font> in paragraph3, you would | end up with parts of paragraph 1 and 3 and all of paragraph 2 modified. | | I would love to see them try and write a DTD fragment for that. --- They don't need to. The *author* is responsible for writing legal SGML (including not violating nesting order). Netscape has explained what their browser will do in the presence of a particular illegal construct. Perhaps they should have also pointed out that it was illegal, but I don't think there's any violation of the standard in documenting what your product will do in the face of particular illegal markup. scott -- scott preece motorola/mcg urbana design center 1101 e. university, urbana, il 61801 phone: 217-384-8589 fax: 217-384-8550 internet mail: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com
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