Microsoft Hatred FAQ

[John Bokma]

Roedy Green <my_email_is_posted_on_my_website at munged.invalid> wrote:

> On 18 Oct 2005 06:57:47 GMT, John Bokma <john at castleamber.com> wrote
> or quoted :
> 
>>>>That an HTML standard (ISO/IEC 15445:2000) and an HTML
>>>>recommendation by w3c (4.01 for example) are two different things,
>>>>and mixing them up by calling both standards is a bad thing.
>>> 
>>> Because ... what are the consequences?
>>
>>If you mean if you are put in jail for 20 years, and tortured, none.
> 
> No. ANY consequences.  You have not explained the downside.

ISO HTML and HTML 4.01 differ. If you were asked to write a validating 
parser for the HTML standard, (as in ISO), and you wrote one for HTML 4.01 
(as in recommendation), you made quite a mistake.

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