- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:06:19 +1000
- To: "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > > Quoting Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>: > >> We don't have implementations of HTML 4.01. If it seems like we have, >> it is an illusion. As a major point, HTML 4.01 is supposed to be an >> application of SGML but none of the top 4 browsers (or top whatever) >> implement it as an application of SGML. > > So why can't they, especially now that they're obviously talking to each > other to get WA1 out the door? Because SGML parsing of HTML isn't compatible with the parsing requirements to handle the billions of pages on the web today. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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