Hello Laurens > Are you still talking about the spaces issue here?
Not only... > ... > The reality is that most HTML pages on the web are broken in one way or > another. I agree with Tony and favor a pragmatic approach over "pure" > compliance. You have to look at problems on a case-by-case basis... Trust me, I have a really pragmatic look at the world. My personal problem with some of the statements: It's o.k. if you say "It is like it is, so let's make the best of it!", BUT: Even if I accept this, it's no standard or correct or ... It's still a violation of the rules. Some years ago I had to write some software for a computersystem that was used to collect data from many sensors. All these devices were declared to use a standard. But when we started to write the software, we found out, the nearly any company had some "extensions" to the communication standards. We needed about 200% of the time we had expected! > Discussion the "standards" issue to death is not going to help. The lines > are drawn anyway. You may be right. So, the last line is my personal favorite definition of standard: A public Agreement on how to make/handle things that is followed whenever possible. If you have to violate it, you should say and try to ex- plain why! Otherwise you could forget any standard and do what you want! Welcome to a world, where MS-Word is the "standard email editor" and ... Greetings, Michael _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
