Re: Prescriptive means??

Daniel W. Connolly (connolly@hal.com)
Mon, 12 Sep 94 00:56:23 EDT

In message <199409102330.AA02916@char.vnet.net>, Stan Newton writes:
>
>I don't understand the use or meaning of the term Prescriptive, as in
>HTML.Prescriptive.

It means "Dan sure wishes it were this way, but there are so
many documents that conflict with this, that it's not this way."

> If I have to author to
>just one specification (HTML 2.0 Level 2, let's say), how do I choose
>between Prescriptive ON or OFF?

Choose OFF (i.e. IGNORE).

Or choose ON and deal with the complaints. :-)

Seriously... if we adopt the simplification of the DTD that
Terry Allen has proposed, this issue will go away (in the OFF
direction.)

Dan