Hi Folks,

On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 11:00:38 +0200, Or Botton wrote:
> For those who havent seen it on Slashdot allready:
> http://www.webstandards.org/upgrade/pr.html
> Group of developers is trying to persude the W3C and generaly web authors
> to drop support for anything lower then N6, IE5.5 and Opera 6.

   Reading through all of the blurb, much of what is on these pages
would match opinions in this group - it bemoans the lack of compliance
to standards by IE and Netscape, older versions of these and other browsers.

   That is OK.

   But then they go on to promote web developers to divert all but
version 5 browsers to an "up-date your browser" page, listing only IE,
Netscape, Opera and a Linux browser.
   They also are pushing for the immediate, and exclusive, adoption by
web developers to use the very latest HTML, XTML, XSL and so on.
   And all this on web pages that are not set up as recommended by the
W3C's HTML 4.01 (which I just happen to have downloaded).

   When I sent an email (of some derision, it has to be confessed) to
the person claiming to be leading this band of clowns, it was bounced
back to me - "Undeliverable Mail, Unknown host" 


   So what are we to make of that ?


Regards,
        Ron

Ron Clarke  http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/music.html
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