- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 12:28:54 -0800
- To: "Simone Demmel" <neko@greenie.muc.de>
- Cc: <innuendo@execpc.com>, <www-html@w3.org>
> > MSIE has more powerful layout tools than NSN. Simone Demmel wrote: > And what does this help me, if I know only 50% of the internet can enjoy > my page? How about a 'back to the roots'? Only HTML2.0 or 3.2 - what about > 3.2 (Wilbur? any news? Had it become an officoal standard now or is it > also left as a 'working draft'?) Good point. But MS deserves a plug for implementing Cascading Style Sheets. If Netscape keeps the promise to do the same then expanding the HTML standard won't matter so much. Style sheets work fine with only HTML2.0 tags. HTML has been a mess for a long time, and WebTV just upped the disorder level. Post-Xmas, WebTV may be a significant part of browser traffic, and consumer-oriented sites will have to support new tags to be competitive. So of what use is the current 3.2 spec? MS and NS may be looking at WebTV as they plan their next HTML enhancements. IMO, WebTV has also complicated CSS1 development. Properties such as transparency are pretty straightforward additions, but a non-scrolling <SIDEBAR> is beyond the current formatting model. I'm not yet familiar with XLM (eXtensible Markup Language)[1], but it looks like it could be a sensible solution to tag soup. Authors should be free to declare their own tags based on a standard set of display properties, with the only concern being what properties the target UAs support. David Perrell [1] http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-xml-961114.html
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