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. -- 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
