Microsoft Hatred FAQ

[Mike Schilling]

"John Bokma" <john at castleamber.com> wrote in message 
news:Xns96F1E574E6873castleamber at 130.133.1.4...
> Roedy Green <my_email_is_posted_on_my_website at munged.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 16 Oct 2005 05:22:47 GMT, John Bokma <john at castleamber.com> wrote
>> or quoted :
>>
>>>No, it's a recommendation, an advise, nothing else. Otherwise they
>>>would call it a standard. Why do you think W3C calls it
>>>recommendations? Because it are no standards. There is an ISO HTML
>>>standard though, but when people babble about HTML standards they talk
>>>about W3C *recommendations*.
>>
>> What do you think the Internet is based on?  RFCs.
>
> Yup, I know. Hence no standards.
>
> Like I said: there is ISO HTML, and there is a w3c HTML 4.01
> recommendation. The former is a standard, the latter is a defacto 
> standard.
> For some the difference does matter.

What matters in generating HTML is which browsers you want to support and 
what they understand.  Standards and recommendations are both irrelevant.