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Re: How will Netscape/AOL Merger Affect Us?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Wed Nov 25 16:59:18 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 16:36:45 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Chuck Mead wrote:
> 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.
Yow! I am very surprised. After reading of Netscape's commitment to
standards, I beleived they would follow the standards.
Somewhere on Netscape's FAQ pages it said they had not yet
caught up to the latest standards, but were working on it.
Is it possible the discrepancies are just due to Netscape
not being able to finish catching up to the standard?
It is hard for me to beleive they are intentionally breaking the
standard after all their badmouthing of MS for not doing so.
>
>
> > 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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