HTML 3.0

[wln at gonzo.phantom.com]

Richard Mercer <richard at seuss.math.wright.edu> wrote:

>An annoying problem I have found is that NetScape often passes bad HTML,
which
>then doesn't work with other browsers that follow the specs more closely.

...Unfortunately, that's appropriate behavior.  "Internet practice" for
protocols is to "generate strictly, accept liberally."  The problem here is
that in most cases, HTML is generated by hand.  Presumably they might
provide a debugging mode that would generate an error report to an
additional window, but it appears that they don't -- Netscape's too busy
stuffing the latest flashy features (no pun intended) into their software to
take the time to do so.  [Someone *please* correct me if I'm wrong, but I
just browsed through Netscape's menus and preference boxes, and saw nothing
that resembled such a mode.]

btw, things like URI-schema case sensitivity (HTTP:, for example), are
errors I've run across that have caused OmniWeb to not cope...

- Lee