Re: why TITLE, not TITLE?

John Udall wrote:
>         It is my understanding that the TITLE element has been required from the
> very begining with HTML 0.x, as well as the standard HTML 2.0 and more
> recent DTDs. Although I haven't been able to lay my hands on a copy of any
> of the early HTML DTDs, like HTML 1.0. Having the TITLE element be required
> provides a minimum amount of meta-information about the document's content.

HTML 2.0 was the first HTML described as a DTD. Everything before was
just described in prose (and AFAIK didn't have explicit version
numbers).

 Paul Prescod

Received on Friday, 9 May 1997 12:06:26 UTC