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[Vadim S. Kaplunovsky]

Richard Mercer <richard at seuss.math.wright.edu> wrote:
> > William Shipley sat in front of a keyboard and typed:
> >> We take a very realistic attitude towards our
> >> competition; NetScape owns 95% of the market, and thus
> >> is the standard. OmniWeb will be compatible with
> >> NetScape; if they interpret a name tag a certain way
> >> then we will too.
> 

> >  	Unfortunately, NetScape is *NOT* standard. There
> >  is an HTML 2.0 Standard (it's recently become a
> >  RFC) and Netscape uses extensions that quite go beside
> >  the point of HTML. Personally, I'd rather see browsers
> >  to adhere to the standards and not to the commercial
> >  world standards.
> 

> Mr. Shipley was not referring to official standards, but the realistic  

> effects of market dominance. Not only for 90% of Web users, but also  

> for a depressingly high percentage of Web authors, Netscape is simply  

> the all there is.  

> 

> [the rest deleted for brevity]

I agree that to be useful OmniWeb must support all the non-standard features of  
the NetScape since to many people use that as a de-facto standard.
However, it is not a good idea to abandon the official standard completely.
Therefore, I would like to suggest a user-settable switch between
"standard HTML" and "NetScape extensions allowed", the latter being the default  
setting but the former available when needed.

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Vadim S. Kaplunovsky,              | vadim at bolvan.ph.utexas.edu (NextMail OK)
Associate Professor of Physics,    | #include <std_disclaimer.h>
University of Texas at Austin.     | #excuse bad_typing.