"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] >> >>> Which standards? W3C doesn't make standards (they talk about working >>> drafts and recommendations), so nothing to warp there for MS. >> >> Umm, a recommendation *is* a standard. > > 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*.
In that sense there are no standards in software. The ISO C++ "standard" and the XML "recommendation" have the same amount of force behind them. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
