On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Lou Burnard wrote:
> Call me cynical if you will, but is the current generation of web browser
> writers really smart enough to handle quoted strings properly, i.e. to ignore
> the equals sign and brackets inside quotes? what will happen when people forget
> the quotes?
Well you can try it out 'cos <URL:http://www.roads.lut.ac.uk/> has a load of
embedded DC in it that conforms to this new scheme. It works OK with X
Mosaic 2.7b5 and Netscape Navigator 3.0b6 for X on my Sun; I'm a little
too busy to track down an MS Windows machine or a Mac to try it on there.
> If said generation really IS that smart, I would have thought that using
> another attribute (SCHEME) was a lot less effort.
Ah, but that would mean breaking the DTD which some of us don't want to
do. The new compromise that Dave has come up with is not only easier to
read that my original "dot.kludge" idea but is also still valid HTML 2.0.
Tatty bye,
Jim'll
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