Hugh Todd wrote:
I mean, I'm sure the people in the w3c gang are really smart monkeys, but like all clusters of people, politics could end up driving it (whether it be some small hidden demon within who voted No on something purely because the guy who thought it up made a bad XMAS party joke about him)? its why we as a society just fail at coming to a collective decision on topics unless a majority ruling is in fact in place (look to local governments).
The way i see it is, if what the W3 distributes as a DTD can effect the way EVERY major browser on the market renders layout, who else really is there to follow?
I can put:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//JoeSchmoe//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.joeschmoe.org//xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
<html xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.joeschmoe.org/1999/xhtml";>
and well, guess what- We're back in quirks mode on most browsers.
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