"John Bokma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Mike Schilling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "John Bokma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > [ w3c "standard" v.s. ISO ] > >> You haven't said why you thinbk "standards" are more valuable than >> "recommendations". We apparently both agree they're no more likely to be >> observed, so what is the reason? > > That an HTML standard (ISO/IEC 15445:2000) and an HTML recommendation by > w3c (4.01 for example) are two different things, and mixing them up by > calling both standards is a bad thing.
Sorry, that's non-responsive. Now, once more, why are standards" *more valuable* than "recommendations"? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list