Re: Aliasing in HTML+

Dave_Raggett <dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com>

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From: Dave_Raggett <dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Message-id: <9308171315.AA19481@manuel.hpl.hp.com>
Subject: Re: Aliasing in HTML+
To: fwilliam@ccs.carleton.ca
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 14:15:30 BST
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
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> With regards to the idea of ignored tags in HTML+ the Internet draft,
> by David Raggett (dsr@hplb.hpl.com) dated July 1993, states on page 4
> 'Notes to Implementors' that unknown tags should be simply ignored.

> This ignoring of `unknown' tags should fit nicely into your
> requirements.

> It was also indicated, in an earlier mail message to www-talk, that
> unknown attributes of known tags will also be ignored.

Thanks for pointing this out. The HTML+ spec is not yet an official
Internet draft, although we hope it will become one soon. before that
can happen, I am going to have to redraft parts of it to take into
account feedback from the recent workshop and from other people who
couldn't attend.

Dave Raggett