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Re: How will Netscape/AOL Merger Affect Us?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Thu Nov 26 05:00:55 1998
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 10:02:03 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
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In-Reply-To: <365C786C.990EEE1@iname.com>; from Jan Carlson on Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 04:36:45PM -0500
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Jan Carlson writes:
[...]
> 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.
There is at least one example where Netscape didn't give hoot about the
standard. That was back in the HTML 2.0 days, when Netscape introduced the
<center></center> tag which was not part of HTML 2.0 (it was included in
HTML 3.2 later) - the sad thing about this is that that tag is completely
obsolete, as there was already <div align="center"></div> which did the
same.
BTW: Frames were not part of HTML 3.2, either... ...and there a few
extensions/attributes to the <table> tag and <a img=...> tags that are not
in HTML 3.2. The other non-standard thing is the wrong placement of tags
(interleaving instead of treating them as containers), which can really
throw off other browsers and tools (e.g. html2ps, which is an *excellent*
tool - I use HTML + html2ps as a kind of "LaTeX light" here at work, as we
don't have "the real thing" on the system).
If you want to have a look for yourself, you can check out the HTML 3.2
standard at: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32.html
The HTML 4.0 standard can be found at: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/
All the best,
Thomas
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