[7027] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: HTML-PS converter.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Meyer)
Thu Dec 15 23:26:35 1994
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 05:09:48 +0100
Errors-To: listmaster@www0.cern.ch
Reply-To: mwm@contessa.phone.net
From: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer)
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
> Actually, having just "<" is legal SGML.
As if it were reasonable to expect a browser to swallow legal HTML.
Many have problems if you just fail to omit all the tags.
I'd be interested in any browser that properly displayed all of
http://www.phone.net/~mwm/browserbuster.html . It validates under the
11/15 HTML 2.0 DTD, even with HTML.Recommended turned on. I've as yet
to find a browser that can deal with the second paragraph in it
properly.
> With all that said, one should use the ';' to delimit entity references.
> It makes life easier for developers of HTML based applications.
It also makes it more likely that your documents will display
properly.
<mike
