Ian Greenway said,
> I noticed the other day that Voyager seems to somewhat selectively
> accept the CENTRE and COLOUR tags or keywords spelled in the English
> way, instead of the American "center" and "color". My webpage made
> use of these and looked ok. IBrowse seemed happy with it too.
Some Browsers will accept English spellings of some tags, but these
are incorrect tags. It's just the browser doing its best to interpret
bad HTML (whih is part of a browser's job).
> Unfortunately, I had a peek at it with IE4 today and... ooops.. it
> fails to recognise the English tags. It did seem happy enough with
> the unterminated <TD> tags that someone else was writing about a few
> days ago, though.
<TR> and <TD> no longer need to be terminated according to the HTML
4.0 specs, but Netscape has real problems formatting tables without
them, so I now use </TR> and </TD> in all my tables.
> So, aside from everyone writing back saying "yeah, I knew that".. :-)
> it raises the questions: What is the official HTML spec?
The one available from W3C. Nothing else is official. There is a copy
in the UsingHTML drawer of the AFCDs.
> If it is
> acceptable to use English spelling, will Voyager support it more
> consistently in its next release? If its not part of the Spec, should
> V support it at all?
That's a moot point. A browser is supposed to do its best to interpret
broken HTML, to make pages viewable wherever possible, but many people
take the view that if it looks OK in their browser the HTML is right.
so forgiving browsers are actually encouraging bad HTML.
Use CheckHTML to check all your pages. This uses the official HTML DTD
and gives a definitive answer as to whether your pages are legal HTML
or not.
Neil
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