RE: CSS Browsers

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-html-request@w3.org [mailto:www-html-request@w3.org]On Behalf
> Of Frank Boumphrey
> Sent: Friday, December 18, 1998 11:06 AM
> To: Masayasu Ishikawa; XavePlant@iname.com
> Cc: html (w3)mailing list
> Subject: Re: CSS Browsers
>
>
> Although HTML 4.0 allows attributes to be unquoted, to be compliant with
> HTML as an application of XML, which is the upcoming standard,
> all values of
> attributes must be quoted. Also note that an empty element should have a
> trailing forward slash thus:
>
> <IMG Src="foo.jpg" ... />

That would need to be

	<img src="foo.jpg />

to be in accordance with the current working draft (requires that elements,
attributes be in lower case).

> To work in ensure no problems with legacy  browsers make sure thare is a
> space before the '/'.

Hm. Interesting point. I'm not sure that backward compatibility with non-XML
HTML won't be a lost cause.

> >>I wanted to know if one here has try the future NetScape 5?
> Is there any improvements in CSS handling?<<
>
> >From what I can see gecko (aka netscape 5) has almost 100% CSS1
> compliance.

Hm. What exactly constitutes "almost 100%"? No, please don't answer that.

Braden

Received on Saturday, 19 December 1998 03:17:13 UTC