"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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
