Re: progress on HTML 2.0 reconstruction

Lou Montulli (montulli@netscape.com)
Wed, 29 Mar 95 14:19:27 EST

On Mar 28, 11:40pm, Jon_Bosak@Novell.COM wrote:
> Subject: Re: progress on HTML 2.0 reconstruction
> I agree with Joe and Terry on this. Illegal constructions are exactly
> that -- illegal. Their behavior under the standard should be undefined.
>

All of the new tags in HTML 2.0 and HTML 3.0 are illegal in the HTML 1.0
spec. Would you like to be in the situation where you cannot add any
new tags without breaking all the existing implementations? That would
certainly make for a difficult situation. The specification says to
ignore unrecognized tags specificly for the purpose of expanding the
spec in the future.

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