- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:18:35 -0600
- To: Jan Roland Eriksson <jrexon@newsguy.com>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Jan Roland Eriksson wrote: > > I have had reason to browse through the ISO/IEC Standard for HTML4... > > <URL:http://woodworm.cs.uml.edu/~rprice/15445/15445.html> > > ...and found among the text the following part... > > "This International Standard makes normative reference to the > W3C Recommendation for HTML 4.0 amended by the HTML 4.0 > Specification Errata." > > ...and there are links in there as follows... > > <URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40> > > <URL:http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html40-updates/REC-html40-19980424-errata.html> > > ...following that first link brings me too... > > <URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/> > > ...i.e. the HTML4.01 recommendation, while the second link correctly > goes to the errata page for HTML4 > > My question is; is it correct of the W3 server to redirect a request for > the older HTML4 spec to the latest HTML4.01 in this case (or in any case > for that matter)? Yes; the address http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40 is advertised (since 18-Dec-1997) as the latest version of HTML 4.0; in ISO-speak, I think that would be "HTML 4.0 as ammended or corrected." If the ISO wanted to cite a specific version of HTML 4.0, we published differend addresses for those: the original Dec '97 recommendation: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40-971218/ and the editorial revision of Apr '98: http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/ and we continue to service those addresses as such, i.e. as archival, unchanging, stable publications. > Or should I see this as a link update problem at ISO/IEC? It's only a problem if they misunderstood what those addresses mean. > I may be noted that even the "User's Guide to ISO/IEC 15445:2000 > HyperText Markup Language (HTML)" at... > > <URL:http://woodworm.cs.uml.edu/~rprice/15445/UG.html> > > ...suffers from the same "problem" > > -- > Jan Roland Eriksson <jrexon@newsguy.com> > <URL:http://member.newsguy.com/%7Ejrexon/> -- Dan Connolly http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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