% From: Jon Knight <[log in to unmask]>
%
% On Fri, 27 Sep 1996 [log in to unmask] wrote:
% > As I said at Warwick, I'd be very wary of assuming that the sequence
% > of META tags will be preserved by any HTML processing software. As far
% > as I know, HoTMetaL Pro does preserve the order, but I wouldn't
% > trust Internet Assistant (say) not to reverse them.
% >
% > There is nothing in the spec (RFC1866) that allows the order of META tags
% > to mean anything.
%
% Hmm, wouldn't that mean that the SGML parse tree would have been
% restructured by the tool? Icky. From my reading of the RFC, the DTD
% doesn't explicitly allow the order of META elements to be changed any more
% than the order of IMG elements can be swapped about. In fact Section 3.1.
% (SGML Documents) tends to imply that the parse tree for particular HTML
% instance is fixed. If some tool changes the parse tree then its
% generating a new document (and thus will need new metadata anyway) or is
% broken by my reading of the RFC.
There's nothing to say that Netscape Gold should turn STRONG elements into B
elements either, but it does (or at least did, I haven't tried the latest
version.)
Lauren
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