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Re: Netscape v NCSA, Progress?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steinar Bang)
Tue Oct 25 20:07:33 1994
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 01:04:35 +0100
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From: Steinar Bang <steinarb@falch.no>
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>>>>> On Tue, 25 Oct 1994 14:56:54 +0100, Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com> said:
> The real point of the HTML standard is to make sure that different browsers
> are able to read HTML files and display them and to the best of my knowledge
> *NONE* of the Mozilla extensions violate the HTML spec, specifically:
> 3.4.4 Undefined Tag and Attribute Names
> ...
> The behavior of WWW applications reading HTML documents and
> discovering tag or attribute names which they do not understand
> should be to behave as though, in the case of a tag, the whole
> tag had not been there but its content had, or in the case of an
> attribute, that the attribute had not been present.
> http://www.hal.com/%7Econnolly/html-spec/spyglass-19941014/HTMLSPEC_10.html
This clause is there to allow for older stuff not following the
standard. It was not put there to give a carte blanche to arbitrary
new additions to the standard.
My solution:
Use the suggested <p align="center">Center me!</p> and bitch to MCOM
that their browser(s) doesn't display this correctly.
- Steinar
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