RE: tlug: HTML again

[Jonathan Byrne - 3Web <jq@example.com>]

On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>    Jonathan> AFAIK no browser is designed to be a syntax checker, so
>    Jonathan> they won't tell you what's wrong with your page.  It's
>
>This will change as things like style sheets become more prevalent,
>don't you think?

Probably, but I'm expecting a fairly slow pace.  Netscape and MS both produce
browsers that will knock themselves out trying to interpret and render the
most astonishingly broken HTML.  To their credit, they do a pretty good job,
but I wish they didn't.  I think they would more profitably spend their
programmer hours making the browser support the whole HTML 4.0 specification,
and rejecting broken pages, so that the author would have to go bck and fix
the problems.

<Sidebar with one more Top 10 Reason to Have Correct HTML: the browser loads
the page faster when it doesn't have to mess around correcting the author's
errors.>

Speaking of which, has anybody tried the release version of Communicator 4.5?
Does it implement more of HTML 4.0?

Jonathan Byrne
Media and Content Section
3Web - Your Internet Solution! <URL:http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/index.en.html>
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