- From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
- Date: 26 Sep 1996 09:07:22 +0100
- To: marnellm@portia.portia.com
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
> :>I have been coding for 6 months... there is a point, as you said in > :>your last message, when it becomes appearent that things aren't > :>needed... I have not found validators do do me much good... they only > :>pick on code that is there for a reason ... I want something to detect > :>my mistakes... Only a parser will do this properly. If you _want_ to be able to write <p>...some text <h4>something</h4>...more text</p> you need to modify the DTD so that it models what you want to do. PLEASE DON'T FORGET THE HTML DTD IS NOT MEANT TO BE PRESCRIPTIVE BUT DESCRIPTIVE. > :>and further more 100% validated code doesn't display > :>worth crap on MSIE... I dispute this, but if it were true, it would be MSIE's fault, not HTMLs. > :>I constantly have to doctor the code between MSIE > :>and netscape due to their such different rendering ideas ... that alone > :>breaks HTML ... No, it breaks the browsers. If you use kosher HTML, it should display adequately on all browsers: if not, complain to the browser makers. ///Peter
Received on Thursday, 26 September 1996 04:05:48 UTC