Posted by Ed Seedhouse on 02/18/07 05:56

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 23:55:19 -0500, Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.net> wrote:


>Your contention (or implication) that the standard is absolute is not
>valid. The further statement that "... HTML tags tell the browser how to
>render a page ..." is only partially true, and that's what I pointed
>out: The HTML standard is ambiguous on many points, NOT mandating what
>a compliant browser should do, only /suggesting/ a possibly preferred
>method of rendering.

Actually HTML tags only delimit HTML elements. What rules there are
about how things might be rendered apply to the elements, not the tags.

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