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On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 17:27:42 Ann Navarro wrote: > At 05:22 PM 8/29/99 -0400, Braden N . McDaniel wrote: > > >Creating an HTML 4.0 document that will be butchered by today's browsers > >is a snap. There are elements that remain unrecognized in the popular > >browsers. EMBED, which is part of no HTML spec, remains more popular on > >the Web than OBJECT simply because it works better. That's how it's less a > >reality than HTML 3.2. > > If you have to reach for EMBED and OBJECT for examples, I can't by any > stretch call this a failure. Citing a tag as commonly used as EMBED isn't a reach by any means. The lack of a W3C-specified alternative with working implementations is a significant failure. But you want more examples? ABBR isn't recognized. Q isn't handled correctly. THEAD, TFOOT, TBODY, COL, and COLGROUP are only available in IE, among the popular browsers. > Nearly the entire HWG site is written in valid HTML 4.0 (and CSS) and it > doesn't fail at all (www.hwg.org) And just how many constructions does it use that don't also appear in HTML 3.2? > It can be done, and it's not at all hard. Not the issue. The issue is that it's far too easy to create HTML 4 documents that *don't* display correctly in current browsers. -- Braden N. McDaniel braden@e... <URI:http://www.endoframe.com> xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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