- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@operasoftware.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 20:29:19 +0100 (Romance Standard Time)
- To: Murray Altheim <altheim@eng.sun.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
Also sprach Murray Altheim: > "HTML" documents in theory should be viewable on any browser that > implements the specification, but unfortunately HTML 4.0's spec allows > for such wide variance and requires support for CSS (itself an impossibility) > that I hardly blame MS and NS for not having compliant browsers. Impossibility? Both Opera and Netscape (through Mozilla) have now implemented CSS1 fully. It wasn't that hard, actually... > The ability to create many varieties of interoperable markup languages > based on a common framework (XML and its family of specs, XLink, XSL, > etc.) relies on people abandoning proprietary markup (and in this I > include a wide array of non-XML Web "features" such as CSS, JavaScript, > the current HTML linking syntax, etc.) and begin using truly > interoperable markup. A new baseline for interoperability, a new era > based on XML, XLink and XSL. As you know, CSS works well with XML documents and it's not proprietary -- it's described in two W3C Recommendations. Your "new-era"-speak reminds me of the vocabulary used to describe SGML a decade ago. Truly interoperable? I think I prefer the Web, warts and all. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie http://www.opera.com/people/howcome howcome@opera.com gets you there faster
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