- From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:09:12 +0100 (BST)
- To: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
- cc: mike@minivend.com, Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>, www-validator@w3.org
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Terje Bless wrote: > On 08.06.01 at 23:57, Mike Heins <mheins@redhat.com> wrote: > > >[...] Yet why do we have an HTML 4.01 transitional spec, and an HTML 4.01 > >strict spec? > > For the same reason that a C compiler has a "-ansi" or "-posix" switch. The > "-pedantic" or "-Wall" switch is a bit different. real programmers will be the first against gcc -Wall when the revolution comes. > ...the Validator can do nought but enforce the specification as it exists. > The proper way to deal with this is to get in touch with the HTML Working > Group at the W3C and raise the issue there. ...waving your corporate membership of the W3C as you do. http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/HTML-WG/ it's been closed since 1996. Which explains a _lot_. http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity warbles on about all that xhtml junk; I doubt anyone still cares about HTML per se. L. <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>
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