RE: Status of Frames in HTML 4 (was: errata, http://www.w3.org/ TR /xhtml1)

At 04:50 PM 1/11/00 +0000, Dave  J Woolley wrote:
>> From:	Ann Navarro [SMTP:ann@webgeek.com]
>> 
>> It isn't. But you can't expect a spec that allows them to look forward to
>> a
>> spec that changes the situation. We don't retroactively edit a spec to say
>> "oh, and these will be deprecated in that spec 2 iterations forward". 
>> 
>	The argument was that they were already disallowed by
>	the strict version of HTML 4.  Other things that are
>	disallowed by the strict version are marked deprecated
>	in the narrative of that spec.

Frames were never *in* the HTML 4 strict set, so they can't be deprecated
there. 

Ann
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Received on Tuesday, 11 January 2000 12:18:57 UTC