"Mike Schilling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "John Bokma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On 18 Oct 2005 06:57:47 GMT, John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >>> or quoted : >>> >>>>>>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. >>>>> >>>>> Because ... what are the consequences? >>>> >>>>If you mean if you are put in jail for 20 years, and tortured, none. >>> >>> No. ANY consequences. You have not explained the downside. >> >> ISO HTML and HTML 4.01 differ. If you were asked to write a >> validating parser for the HTML standard, (as in ISO), and you wrote >> one for HTML 4.01 (as in recommendation), you made quite a mistake. > > There are standards that conflict, and also recommendations that > conflict. Why is confusing standard A with recommendation P worse than > > 1. confusing standard A with standard B, or > 2. confusing recommendation P with recommendation Q
Calling a recommendation a standard might confuse it with the actual ISO standard. Imagine one buys a validating parser that states "SUPPORTS ALL STANDARDS", and they actually meant it supports all w3c recommendations. -- 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
