"John Bokma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "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? >
A browser that's perfectly compliant but can't render the pages actually found would be of only academic interest. So, yes, the standards (and recommendations) are one source of requirements, but the actual contents of the internet is another. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
