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Posted by ZabMilenko on 10/06/06 13:38
Yes you are right. It is a fairly big claim, and I could very well be wrong
about it.
I was kind of basing it off of IE3, Netscape3, Mosaic 2.1, and Opera 2.1,
all of which came out in 1996. HTML 3 was written in 1997 if I recall
correctly. Netscape was largely responsible for the changes from HTML2 to
3, so I kind of used them as a milestone. Since HTML4.0 was already on the
drawing board when HTML3 came out, most browsers shot for compliance at that
level.
The three browsers I can't say for sure on are AOL's bundled browser circa
1997 (before they bundled IE3), Apple Safari, and the Lynx browser.
Mosaic seems to be the only one with sporadic support for the commonly found
short attributes (particularly select disabled). And I honestly only used
it myself a few times.
When I read W3Cs claim in the 4.01 specification, I tend to think they are
talking about some very arcane user agents. In 1999, there were only a few
real popular browsers (the wars were basically over), but other agent types
were emerging (such as the Libretto/CE handhelds, the Palm wannabes and PCS
telephones).
Anyways, I take back what I said. It is better worded as: Almost every
user agent since Netscape 3.2 has supported it.
usenet+2004@john.dunlop.name wrote:
>> EVERY browser since Netscape 3.2 has supported it.
>
> That's a big claim.
>
> According to HTML4.01 (now 7 years old), 'many user agents only
> recognize the minimized form of boolean attributes and not the full
> form'.
>
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