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Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Phillips)
Wed Nov 23 14:55:17 1994
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 20:44:44 +0100
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From: Paul Phillips <psphilli@sdcc8.UCSD.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
On Wed, 23 Nov 1994, Rob Hartill wrote:
> The question is, is a browser broken if it fails to give even a default
> prompt when a prefered prompt is specified ?. I think and hope the answer
> is yes.
If a browser understands the base tag but not an attribute, the entire
tag should not be ignored. This probably isn't terribly well defined;
browsers should really support a strict subset of HTML and all tags
defined therein, but the malleability of the spec and the way it has
evolved makes that difficult. Imagine if browsers that don't support <P
ALIGN="CENTER"> ignored the paragraph tag altogether.
-Paul Phillips
