- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:40:20 -0400
- To: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com
- CC: www-tag@w3.org
noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote: > Yes, of course. In a typical HTML compound document page, HTML is indeed > one of the key vocabularies, and knowing it's version is truly useful. Really? Why? The must ignore semantics of HTML tend to mean that it has a high degree of forward and backward compatibility. Renderers can simply approach all HTML (especially all XHTML) as being an instance of the latest version they know about, recognize all the elements they recognize, and ignore the rest. It's not as if the meaning of anything actually changes from one version to the next. There are just new things added. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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