|  | Posted by David Dorward on 07/24/07 08:49 
On Jul 24, 8:21 am, v4vijayakumar <vijayakumar.subbu...@gmail.com>wrote:
 > Are HTML versions are backward compatible to previous versions?
 
 To some extent. Elements and attributes get deprecated as better ways
 to solve problems are added to the language.
 
 > If no, why all these HTML versions look same all the time? Why there
 > are no considerable improvements?
 
 Because development stalled while waiting for browsers to implement
 HTML 4.x and XHTML 1.x.
 
 > Why not let the browsers worry about things.
 
 HTML 4.01 is six and a half years old and still isn't properly
 implemented in Internet Explorer.
 
 > How long we, users, have to wait for more interesting things like
 > window inside window?! :)
 
 "Window inside window" is called "frames", was introduced in HTML 4,
 and promptly avoided by most of the web development community because
 the concept breaks the mapping of "one url = one view", which doesn't
 work nicely with search engines, bookmarks, and various other things.
 
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 David Dorward
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 http://blog.dorward.me.uk/
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