Re: HTML 2.0 LAST CALL: Hyperlinking, Forms, Elements

Jon_Bosak@Novell.COM
Fri, 2 Jun 95 01:38:23 EDT

| > there is no logically consistent position on this but to
| >standardize entity names for all of the 191 graphic characters in the
| >Latin-1 spec. Either that or leave them out.
|
| I agree that the HTML 2.0 DTD is inconistent in this respect. It's
| also inconsistent in that there's a URN attribute on A and not on IMG,
| and probably in several other ways.
|
| But the HTML 2.0 standardization effort is not about fixing HTML, so
| much as describing it as is. [...]

Are you saying that all of the entity names in the current draft were
supported by all of the HTML browsers available in mid-1994? Or are
you just saying that all of the entity names in the current draft are
supported by all of the HTML browsers available now? If the latter,
how exactly did you determine this to be true?

Jon