also... SGML/DTD

[Eric Litman]

In nxstep.omniweb on 27 Jun 95 17:08:48 GMT, you wrote:

# 	Another addtion/feature for OmniWeb's next (or future releases) 
# would be the ability to really read DTD/SGML, maybe a preferences 
# selection to do either strict DTD/SGML or HTML.  I think that'd be way 
# way cool and we'd all look like studs for using a *pure* browser, and 
# Omni'd look like even huger studs than usual! :)

This fundamentally violates one of the key principals the internet was
built upon, and that is to generate strictly, accept loosely. What
exactly would be the benefit of restricting yourself from viewing the
nearly countless number of pages on the web which do not conform
precisely to the latest DTD? The "purity" of which you speak should
not be an end in an of itself - I refer you to the OSI stack for
historical reference.

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