- From: <Albertfine@aol.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 20:49:02 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
- cc: jptxs@idt.net
jptxs@idt.net (jptxs) wrote: >You are reffering to the world of graphical browsers only. Some browsers, >text-only, audio, brail, and others (even some older graphical ones), do >require these tags. so you've legacy problems. Many pages do not use the head or body tag. It is the HTML coder choice to write degradable HTML or not. >not to mention that the new standards (HTML4.0, the DOM, and CSS--and soon >XML) are all pushing for _more_ desciption of the HTML document, not less. The idea of a deleting unessential tags came from XML. Go to http://www.ucc.ie/xml/#FAQ-DTD to see what I mean. Albert Fine
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