- From: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:35:53 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
> From: Jan Roland Eriksson [SMTP:jrexon@newsguy.com] > > > Still it would be interesting to find out where in UA's you can find > "sets of semantics rules". Todays (and tomorrows) "popular browsers" [DJW:] The most obvious semantic rules is the one that says that <A HREF=... defines a hyperlink. A better example of one that would apply to HTML browsers implemented properly, would be one that forced the first radio button to be checked when none were checked and the HTML version was one that required this. I doubt that any do! > Don't confuse "presentation" with "semantics" please. > [DJW:] Most people do! However, before people started treating HTML as a page description language with a pre-installed viewer, the theory was that the user agent should present the document in a manner consistent with its underlying semantics, not any author's concept of how it should be presented. At that time, HTML was cleanly backwards compatible.
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