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Re: Netscape v NCSA, Progress?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary Adams - Sun Microsystems Labs)
Tue Oct 18 22:18:48 1994

Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 03:16:58 +0100
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From: gra@zeppo-sa.east.sun.com (Gary Adams - Sun Microsystems Labs BOS)
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Before we get too many :

	text/x-<browser-name>-html

documents floating around, it would be good to have a simple 
registry in place that would not require a full standards
body to debate the details of each new set of enhancements
that come along. There is a fair amount of agreement 
today for what is in HTML 1.0 and 2.0 . There is some
general idea of what will be available in HTML 3.0 and
to a lesser extent what could appear in HTML 2.1.  

Perhaps the Netscape extensions could be labeled as "bag a"
of HTML extensions. aka HTML 2.0.a or 2.0 + a . Are there other 
extension naming conventions that could fill the gap ? A mechanism
that allows both a formal standardization process and a rapid 
prototyping environment for new browser developers is important
to maintain the growth of web capabilities.

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