On Wednesday, 10 September 2003, at 11:39:53 a.m., Sheldon Schuster wrote: > When did you become a member of the Gestapo HMTL police? HTML is > not a static entity--it is a dynamic changing standard that changes > as new user interests and technology develope. Are you still using > the text based UNIX e-mail of the early '90's?
Ummmm. From the W3C HTML 4.01 Specification: "W3C Recommendation 24 December 1999". Granted XHTML is around, but that is purely phrasing HTML in XML terms. Now, in this industry, you can't get much more static than that! What is *changing* is people's _use_ of this standard. The only major thing wrong with the original HTML spec was the lack of a separate presentation mechanism. That was recognised and corrected nearly *seven* years ago (CSS 1 = December 1996). It is really only poor browser technology that has held back the standards revolution. Just because graphic tables are mainstream, doesn't make them right. And *yes I am* using 'text based Unix email'! So are you!! Where do you think TCP/IP, POP and SMTP came from?? Under the covers it is still doing the same thing. It's still there because it works. Just putting some HTML in there doesn't change the underlying transport layers. Elsewhere it has been said this is going quite OT. I tend to agree. But then certain moderators are leaping into the fray with vigour. I shall continue on-list unless moderated otherwise. -- Regards, Allister. Using The Bat! v2.00.6 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.00 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
