On Apr 7, 2005 8:41 PM, Alan Trick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just curious if any popular browser would display this page properly > http://www.tarunz.org/~vassilii/html-is-an-sgml-dtd.html > I though Moz would, but it disapointed me.
I thought it was common knowledge that no browser in common use (and by common use I include every browser that has ever been above 0.1% in usage statistics for the net) uses a true SGML engine. HTML as employed on the web requires a tagsoup parser, or the majority of all pages would experience problems. There are just too much error correction that needs to be done in the HTML engine to allow a browser to use a true SGML engine. Look for example on all XHTML sent as HTML. The <element/> syntax has a different meaning in SGML. You can have a look at <uri:http://liorean.net/sgml-goodness.html> for an example of a perfectly valid HTML 4.01 Strict document that no browser in common use handles due to their lack of SGML parsing. -- David "liorean" Andersson <uri:http://liorean.web-graphics.com/> ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
