- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 16:05:31 -0400 (EDT)
- To: W3C HTML <www-html@w3.org>
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Frank Boumphrey wrote:
> You miss the point,
> ISO issues standards, W3C being an Industrial consortium issues
> recommendations, which may or may not be followed. If they are followed then
> they gain some credence as a de-facto standard.
Exactly my point. The HTML recommendations haven't become de-facto
standards. They are not even folled by the consortium members. So W3C's
HTML recommendations are not standards.
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Russell O'Connor roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
<http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~roconnor/>
``And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message''
-- Anindita Dutta, ``The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy''
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