Larry Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is a standard really a standard if nobody follows it?
If nobody supports the standard, how will we get people to follow it?
Without the standard being followed, how will we still communicate?
That's somewhat snide, dontchathink?
"English" isn't standard; even in London it's more the bastardized American than it is "proper" English. Real french is spoken more in Quebec than in Paris.
By the same token, HTML that is regularly used and that is handled well by IE, Opera, and Mozilla (which this is), well, those ARE the standard.
Relying on W3 to tell you who you should listen to, and excluding anything ON PRINCIPLE that doesn't match, even if it is otherwise universally recognized, may feel good, but it is precisely that which prevents "communication."
I don't have a bone to pick here about this issue; when Plucker things bug me, I fix them as I did several times this past autumn in the Python parser and the C++ Desktop. But the idea that you communicate more effectively by closing your ears than by listening to the vernacular the world is speaking... that philosophy warranted a response.
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