"Mike Schilling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "John Bokma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> 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. Yup, but ISO C++ is a standard, and XML is a recommendation. For some people that *does* matter. Hence there is ISO HTML and there is a HTML 4.01 recommendation. -- 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
