- From: Claus André Färber <w3-html-list@faerber.muc.de>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 21:58:00 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com> [list.w3-html]: > It wasn't so much that browser makers didn't read the docs; they just > made HTML readers (buggy & incomplete ones at that), not SGML+ > HTML readers. If the specs clearly noted the use of CDATA, INCLUDE, > IGNORE etc. there'd have been support added. Wasn't that one design goal for HTML? That HTML, although it is a valid SGML application, has a very simple syntax, which can be parsed by browsers that don't (want to) know anything about SGML. Now, as browsers have become more and more advanced, we ask for the features that have been (intentionally?) left out for simplicity in the first place. -- Claus André Färber <http://www.muc.de/~cfaerber/> <faxto:+49-8061-2057> PGP: ID=1024/527CADCD FP=12 20 49 F3 E1 04 9E 9E 25 56 69 A5 C6 A0 C9 DC
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