Re: don't like tags....

Calle Aasman (md4calle@mdstud.chalmers.se)
Thu, 7 Aug 1997 08:28:58 +0200 (MET DST)


> I don't think so.  <-- text --> is not a tag.  what if you don't find
> the ending ">".  for how long should we ignore text?  how should we
> parse it as a tag (what is the name of the tag and what are the
> attributes)?
isn't a tag defined by < and > ?
browsers ignore unknown tags, why not do the same? Or can it have
some messy side-effects?

> Can you try to explain what Netscape and MSIE does with this (bad)
> markup?
Netscape for Solaris treats it like an unknown tag. (don't have MSIE, but
perhaps someone else can look ? the URL is:  www.sony.com )

all best,

/Calle

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