- From: Arnoud <galactus@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 18:59:33 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
In article <199709120654.IAA26565@se2000.sebank.se>, hass.chapman@sebank.se (Chapman, Hass) wrote: > Anyone who expects the web to become standardised anytime soon is just > kidding themselves. Sounds a bit defeatist to me. Does this mean we'll just have to let NS and MS introduce even more tags and attributes, and try to clean up the mess in a year or two? > Market forces will force those who create > web-browsers to add more and more features. That would be a good thing, if the browser authors could implement some *useful* features for a change, and implement things like CSS correctly(!). > Added to this will be the > increasing number of plug-ins available for those browsers offering > enhancements not possible with pure HTML. That's not including the > increasing number of scripting features! > This is GOOD. It offers more functionality to the user/publisher. Why is it good? I see no reason why the *capability* to use feature X means that a "publisher" *has* to use it. In any case, what does this have to do with HTML? Installing and configuring plugins is really platform-specific, and as far as HTML is concerned, a sequence of embedded OBJECT elements can be used to supply the content in various formats. > To say that web authors should limit themselves to only those features > available in the HTML standards, and supported by minority browsers, when > over 90% of web users have either IE3.x or Netscape3.x or higher, and an > increasing number have both, is just ludicrous! Who has said this? I don't recall anything about not being allowed to embed or enclose a Shockwave movie or a Java applet in an HTML document. The discussion is more about how to provide such enhancements in a well-degrading way, so that people who turn off the plugin can still read the document. -- E-mail: galactus@htmlhelp.com .................... PGP Key: 512/63B0E665 Maintainer of WDG's HTML reference: <http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/>
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