- From: Ian Hickson <py8ieh@bath.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 23:48:41 +0000 (BST)
- To: Xavier Plantefeve <XavePlant@iname.com>
- cc: "Alan G. Isaac" <aisaac@american.edu>, www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Xavier Plantefeve wrote: > HTML 4.0 works fine and will continue to work fine, mind you: HTML > 1.0 is currently perfectly rendered by both Gecko & IE5. LOL!!! In the earliest surviving HTML spec, one finds: # Highlighting # The highlighted phrase tags may occur in normal text, and may be # nested. For each opening tag there must follow a corresponding # closing tag. # <HP1>...</HP1> <HP2>... </HP2> etc. I'd like to see IE5 grok that. Oh, and in an update to that spec, one finds: # TYPEWRITER # # The TYPEWRITER element is used for characters that have already # been formatted for a typewriter-like device. Markup is recognized # in this element just as in the normal body paragraphs. But after # processing tags and entity references, the data is displayed as on # a typewriter, rather than using typesetting conventions. I am not aware of any browser that supports _that_ element. What about all the other HTML stuff that they don't support or support incorrectly: collapsing empty P elements, the LINK element, the "alt" attribute, comments, RS/RE around tags, nesting UL in a DL in an OL... No, I think it would be more accurate to say that "HTML 4.0 works fine and will continue to work fine, mind you: HTML 1.0 is currently rendered tolerably well by both Gecko & IE5". Thankfully, most of these problems will probably be _correctly_ implemented in XHTML browsers, since at that stage it just becomes a case of correctly parsing XML, which is easier than SGML. -- Ian Hickson U+2642 U+2651 U+262E U+2603 U+263A
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