- From: <BruceLeban@akimbo.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 01:14:23 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
>1) The DTD is not backwards compatible. HEAD and BODY are required,
>to name just two examples.
It depends on how you define backwards compatible. I personally am more
concerned about old applications being able to read new documents.
Without that, then your documents will be unreadable by anyone who
doesn't upgrade their software. On the other hand, it's less of a problem
if your HTML 2.7 document doesn't meet the HTML 2.8 standard, since an
application can be written to read both formats. Fortran 77 didn't
invalidate all those Fortran 66 programs. (Everyone on this list *does*
know Fortran, right? OK, in modern terms, Nintendo 64 doesn't mean that
your old Nintendo 8 bit system doesn't work anymore but they do take
different cartridges.)
>2) In AREA, "shape=default" is omitted. This makes it impossible to
>define an URL for all undefined areas in the map.
Hardly impossible. Simply define a rectangle that covers the entire area
of the image as the bottom-most shape and name it "Default" if you want.
--- Bruce Leban
Akimbo Systems
http://www.akimbo.com/globetrotter
Publish on the web without learning HTML! (Really.)
Received on Thursday, 3 April 1997 01:14:16 UTC