"Mike Schilling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "John Bokma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On 16 Oct 2005 05:22:47 GMT, John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >>> or quoted : >>> >>>>No, it's a recommendation, an advise, nothing else. Otherwise they >>>>would call it a standard. Why do you think W3C calls it >>>>recommendations? Because it are no standards. There is an ISO HTML >>>>standard though, but when people babble about HTML standards they >>>>talk about W3C *recommendations*. >>> >>> What do you think the Internet is based on? RFCs. >> >> Yup, I know. Hence no standards. >> >> Like I said: there is ISO HTML, and there is a w3c HTML 4.01 >> recommendation. The former is a standard, the latter is a defacto >> standard. >> For some the difference does matter. > > What matters in generating HTML is which browsers you want to support > and what they understand. Standards and recommendations are both > irrelevant.
So how do you develop a browser? I assume you have some experience with programming, or is that trial and error programming? Hack until it works? -- John Small Perl scripts: http://johnbokma.com/perl/ Perl programmer available: http://castleamber.com/ I ploink googlegroups.com :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
