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Posted by Ed Mullen on 02/18/07 03:14
Helpful Harry wrote:
> In article <592et2tcm5m4d9ioo91v2uh1nu0ip4f35b@4ax.com>, Andy Dingley
> <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:11:10 +1300, Helpful Harry
>> <helpful_harry@nom.de.plume.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The sound of the point going right over your head. :o)
>> Over _yours_ more like.
>>
>>> HTML tags are [...] they are a way to
>>> tell a browser how to render a page on-screen.
>> Not for 10 years they haven't been.
>
> Yep, so a browser makes it up as it goes along, completely ignoring
> HTML tags ... that makes sence, NOT! (Except perhaps in the case of
> Internet Explorer.)
>
> Of course HTML tags tell the browser how to render a page. That's what
> the HTML was designed to do. :o\
You're almost right but, no, you don't fully understand.
Look at it this way. Suppose you are setting out to create a browser
from scratch. You want it to be "standards compliant." You read the
standards. You find many parts that "suggest" how a particular HTML tag
is rendered. However, the standard does not "mandate" how that tag is
rendered. So. You could, for instance, design your browser to render
<blah> as suggested by the standard: Italic-Bold-Sans-Serif. Or not.
You might choose: Monospace-Big-Red. You would not be violating the
standard because the standard doesn't mandate how a browser renders <blah>.
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