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Re: How will Netscape/AOL Merger Affect Us?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Mead)
Wed Nov 25 15:13:46 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:13:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
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On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Jan Carlson wrote:
> "Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG)" wrote:
>
> > Gordon Messmer writes:
> > [...]
> > > So Netscape is, and Word will be (isn't that the MS way??) HTML
> > > editors. Graphics capable, WYSIWYG editors with a spell checker.
> > > What else constitues a word processor?
> >
> > a) there is no such thing as WYSIWYG with HTML. Common misconception.
> > b) Netscape is not a HTML editor - it's a program that is able to output
> > some ASCII code that vaguely resembles the page layout language that is
> > called HTML - but it is *not* valid HTML in most cases.
>
> Actually there is an HTML editor in Netscape. It's called composer.
Thomas knows that.
> I bet it does output valid HTML.
No it doesn't.
> Whose definition if 'valid HTML' are you using?
There is only one standards body, the W3C.
HTML 4.0 - http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/
HTML 3.2 - http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32.html
The standard for 2.0 was adopted by the IETF as RFC 1866 but since
then the IETF has abdicated responsibility for HTML standards to the
W3C.
HTML 2.0 - http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/ aka RFC1866
> In Netscape when you write an email message and use the option
> "use HTML editor to create mail messages" it also creates HTML.
So... ?
Cheers!
--
Chuck Mead, CEO - Moongroup Consulting, Inc. <chuck@moongroup.com>
http://www.moongroup.com/
http://www.moongroup.com/unix/
This isn't true in practice -- what we've missed out is Stradivarius's
constant. And then the aside: "For those of you who don't know, that's
been called by others the fiddle factor..."
-- From a 1B Electrical Engineering lecture.
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