Mosaic2.0 and ISINDEX

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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 93 23:15:16 -0800
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Message-id: <9311160715.AA20386@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Mosaic2.0 and ISINDEX
In-reply-to: <199311152104.AA19862@rock.west.ora.com>
References: <199311152104.AA19862@rock.west.ora.com>

Terry Allen writes:
> Mosaic2.0's treatment of the ISINDEX tag is now in violation of the
> HTML+ DTD.  According to the DTD, the tag is allowed only in
> HEAD---that is, it's metainformation about the doc, and was thus
> properly implemented in the frame of 1.2.
> 
> Now Mosaic renders a search field in the document wherever the tag
> appears: if it appears properly in HEAD, the search field is at the
> top of the doc, but if it appears improperly elsewhere, the field is
> still rendered.
> 
> If browser developers won't stick to the DTD, there's no point in
> having one.

Your documents are not conforming to the DTD.

Marc