Re: Offtopic: Web Standards Project

Tim Bray (tbray@textuality.com)
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:54:42 -0700

At 05:48 PM 8/10/98 -0400, Steven Champeon wrote:
>Does using a non-standard workaround for a bug in one's *markup* make a
>desire for fully compliant *implementations* null and void? I don't think
>it does.

Steven and Murray are each entitled to their opinion. On top of which,
as of this morning, the pages at the WSP site all start like so:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">

and they validate. And if they don't that's a high-update-rate bug
and they'll be fixed. And (I can say this since I had no input into
their design) they look damn good too, on a wide variety of browsers.
-Tim