>> Definitely would be useful - anyone? I'm going to implement the <lang>
>> tag that is in there sometime soon, and a list would be most useful.
The language values are composed from the two letter language code
as defined by ISO 639 followed by a period, and then a two letter
country code from ISO 3166.
I could include these lists as an appendix in the Internet Draft
for HTML 3.0 - its already 177 pages long so a few more won't harm! :-)
>> This is a one-way hashing algorithm. Will always be 32 base-64 encoded
>> chars long. ie:
>> MD5("foobar") = 3858f62230ac3c915f300c664312c63f
> Where does a user get a standalone base64 binary that will hash a string
> argument so the result can be included?
The C code for the MD5 algorith is published as an RFC, I can't remember
which one off hand though.
>>> l. Does nowrap in <p> effectively imply auto-<br>?
>>
>> God I hope not. I read it to mean that <p nowrap> is basically a <pre>
>> segment not in a monospaced font.
No! It simply turns off automatic word wrap for the current element, in
this case a paragraph. This is useful when you only want the browser
to insert line breaks at particular places designated by <BR>. The SGML
entity can be used to include non-breaking spaces, when word wrap
is enabled.
I am still uncertain as to whether the Netscape NOBR and WBR tags should
be added to HTML 3.0 or not. These provide an alternative approach to
use of and the nowrap attribute. What do people think?
re the RANGE widget for fill out forms:
> I would like to see that broken out into <input type=range min=1 max=10>
I decided against this to keep a reasonable bound on the number of
attributes for the INPUT tag. Perhaps we ought to consider breaking
INPUT into a number of different tags?
>> What happened to the 'named' base tags from the HTML 3.0 spec that was
>> distributed at the IETF meetings in San Jose? I thought it was very
>> useful, and it was trivial to implement.
The way I heard it, was that most people didn't understand the concept
or couldn't see the value it adds. I therefore decided to move it to
the other side of the chop line in the interest of getting a 3.0 spec
out in a reasonable time.
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