- From: Robert Hazeltine <rhazltin@zeppo.nepean.uws.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:21:33 +1000 (EET)
- To: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
- Cc: Marcelo Magallon <mmagallo@efis.ucr.ac.cr>, www-html@w3.org
Chris, On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, lilley wrote: > Heh. Before we all go and slit our collective wrists, however, I would > refer you to a recent W3C draft Technical Report on a new HTML element > which will replace app (Sun) applet (Sun) embed (Netscape) marquee > (Microsoft) bgsound (Microsoft) etc etc .. > > And before you all go (as I did) "pah, they will never implement that" look > at the authors of the spec ... and reconsider. Times they are a changin' > > http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-insert.html This is good to see. But I wonder why it this particular element rather than some of the still unsettled issues like maths? > The lowest common denominator is now HTML 2.0, which defines in > toe-curling detail the consensus of the state of HTML in around August 94. > If you want to know what is the lowest common denominator, look there. May I ask when this passed from being a proposed spec to a fully fledged one? Rob... Robert Hazeltine r.hazeltine@nepean.uws.edu.au Library Web Support http://www.nepean.uws.edu.au/library/
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