[whatwg] Re: some issues

Matthew Raymond mattraymond at earthlink.net
Sun Jul 11 04:58:34 PDT 2004


Jim Ley wrote:
>>Anyway, I would be *extremely* surprised if a WF2 DTD were to be produced
>>which caused valid HTML4 documents not to be valid 'HTML4 with WF2'
>>documents. Is there any reason you seriously believe that this might be the
>>case, 
> 
> Hixie's sensible dislike of those things in specs which were never
> implemented, and various other things said on the list.

    That doesn't make any sense. If Ian doesn't like DTDs, he's 
certainly not going to be the person to write one. Therefore, the only 
way a DTD would cause problems with either WF2 or HTML4 is if Ian 
deliberately altered the draft to make someone else's DTD invalid.



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