Re: Vendors taking SGML seriously

Gavin Nicol (gtn@ebt.com)
Thu, 13 Apr 95 14:57:10 EDT

>- Omission of the trailing '"' character in quoted strings.

And <A HREF=http://can_you_say_net>

>- Terminating symbolic character references ("&XXXX;") with
> whitespace instead of ";"

I think this is legal (though I can't quite remember the details).

>- <DT> without a corresponding <DD>

This is legal in some versions of the HTML DTD.

>- <A> emdbedded within another <A>

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Anyway, I think we should start moving toward requiring stricter
conformance to SGML and HTML. Validation services are obviously
useful, but really, browsers should be fixed too.


I think the idea of a "The top 101 mistaked in HTML authoring" guide
would be extremely useful.