[9707] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Microsoft IE -- it just gets better and better
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shel Kaphan)
Sat Jan 27 19:14:57 1996
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 16:02:12 -0800
From: Shel Kaphan <sjk@amazon.com>
To: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>
Cc: "M. Hedlund" <hedlund@best.com>, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <199601272347.PAA10569@rock.west.ora.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Terry Allen writes:
> Shel Kaphan:
> >or write pages in a meta-language that can be macro-expanded at the
> time it is displayed based on browser capabilities,
>
> Kinda sounds like SGML, doesn't it?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Terry Allen (terry@songline.com), Online Books Editor, Songline Studios
> affiliated with O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
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For the most part, sure, but there are inevitably going to be browser
feature differences that someone may want to case out on that are not
encoded in a DTD. Perhaps they could be in theory -- I'm not enough of
an SGML hacker to know how flexible it can be.
Shel
