- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@wired.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 12:29:42 -0800 (PST)
- To: "Robert S. Thau" <rst@ai.mit.edu>
- Cc: www-talk@www10.w3.org
On Mon, 6 Mar 1995, Robert S. Thau wrote: > I just downloaded my copy of Netscape 1.1 beta 1, very happy to see them > exploring with tables and other 3.0 features in a mostly standard way. > However, I was very dismayed to see that the Accept: headers did *not* > include something indicating it was HTML 3.0-ready, like text/x-html3 or > text/html; version=3.0. > > Agreed, with a caution --- while Netscape 1.1 does support tables, it > does not yet support many features of the current 3.0 draft DTD > (<fig>, <note>, and <math> just to name a few that jump out at me from > viewing the W3O's HTML3 walkthrough using Netscape 1.1). So, if we > call what Netscape accepts right now "HTML3" (however that's spelled), > it could bite us *again* down the line. Comparing the consequences between a almost-HTML-3.0 browser viewing HTML 3.0 pages and a not-more-than-HTML-2.0 browser viewing HTML 3.0 pages, I think the former case is much preferable, particularly if it helps encourage the almost-HTML-3.0 browser become fully-HTML-3.0. Brian-dash-dot-dot-dash-Behlendorf --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@hotwired.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.hotwired.com/Staff/brian/
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