[10650] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
FW: IE4.0 and W3C Standards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Isaacs)
Tue Mar 4 21:52:59 1997
From: Scott Isaacs <scotti@microsoft.com>
To: "'www-style@w3.org'" <www-style@w3.org>,
"'www-talk@w3.org'"
<www-talk@w3.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 18:38:14 -0800
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
> An article was recently written by CRN (Computer Reseller News) that
> incorrectly stated that Microsoft is working on a proprietary superset
> of HTML 3.2 that will ship in Internet Explorer 4.0. This article is
> WRONG. Microsoft is NOT defining any new HTML or CSS features that
> are not being discussed in coordination with the W3C. Dynamic HTML is
> a cross-platform object model available to scripts that accurately
> represents a HTML and CSS document according to those standards. The
> API used by Dynamic HTML is being reviewed and discussed within the
> document object model working group of the W3C.
>
> All new features being introduced in Internet Explorer 4.0 are under
> discussion with the W3C. Dynamic HTML is Microsoft's IMPLEMENTATION of
> W3C's emerging work. For example, Internet Explorer 4.0 will support
> the recently released forms working draft and CSS Positioning working
> draft.
>
> I am Microsoft's representative on the HTML, CSS, and Document Object
> Model working groups.
>
> Scott Isaacs
> scotti@microsoft.com
>
