- From: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 23:23:55 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
Once upon a time Lee Daniel Crocker shaped the electrons to say... >Of course they do. If you want clean information, you have to >take out things like physical markup and put them in style sheets-- >but then your code won't validate, because the "CLASS" attribute You don't break the rules, you just change the ruleset and use the Cougar DTD. Although I admit some of the last minute changes to 3.2 don't seem to have propigated over in the official Cougar DTD (Dave? Dan?) >is not part of any existing DTD. Of course we all know it will The Cougar DTD exists, it is on the W3C web. >I also sympathize with complaints that HTML is 10 times more >complex than necessary, hopelessly ambiguous, unparseable, based Am I some kind of wunderkind then? I don't seem to have difficulty writing HTML by hand and reading the DTD, creating new layouts, etc... I do have an advantage of having started five years ago, but really it wasn't a great deal simpler then, and we didn't have a tenth of the reference material out today. >on a spec that isn't even legally publishable on the Web, and >not as expandable as it could be. That doesn't mean I advocate How is it not expandable? I've watched HTML slowly move towards generic SGML, and I fully expect that is where we will end up. >ignoring it, but let's not sweep all the complaints under the >rug and call the complainers uneducated; let's fix it. I agree it needs improvement and expansion, but the attitude of "I don't understand this so I'll just ignore it" is laughable. It is naive at best and blatantly stupid at worst. Anyone who has written software, designed electronics devices, etc, knows the importance of a standard as a level playing field. Any deviations from standard are fraught with peril. -MZ -- Livingston Enterprises - Chair, Department of Interstitial Affairs Phone: 800-458-9966 510-426-0770 FAX: 510-426-8951 megazone@livingston.com For support requests: support@livingston.com <http://www.livingston.com/> Snail mail: 6920 Koll Center Parkway #220, Pleasanton, CA 94566 See me in person: Internet Expo, Boston, MA, October 16-17, Booth 422 ;-)
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