- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 09:09:20 -0400
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
At 08:03 PM 10/17/96 -0700, David Perrell wrote: >IMHO, the 'browser wars' have turned positive. Remember that Navigator >is still the #1 browser, and Netscape's solution to every user request >for more control of presentation has been a new HTML tag, often >entirely inconsistent with previous tags and unnecessarily limited in >scope. It took MS's embrace of CSS1 to shift the presentation focus >away from HTML tags. Not yet. Netscape 3.0 still added a dozen or more tags, like <SERVER>, <GENKEY> and other grossnesses. IE 3.0 added <IFRAME> too. >You crave full SGML. Could anyone hope for full SGML on a web-wide >scale while the major UA supplier scoffs at DTDs? Yes. The W3C is working on DTD-less SGML. DTD-less SGML+CSS should be no harder to parse and render than HTML+CSS. Paul Prescod
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