ATTN: Please comment on XHTML (before it's too late)

Tim Bray tbray at textuality.com
Sun Aug 29 21:09:57 BST 1999


At 01:16 PM 8/29/99 -0400, Ann Navarro wrote:
>At 10:03 AM 8/29/99 -0700, Tim Bray wrote:
>>  it's just nuts to make them pretend that HTML
>>is three different languages.
>
>Did we have this argument when HTML 4.0 went to PR?

HTML4 has 3 DTDs.  That certainly doesn't mean it's 3 languages.  It's
routine for a language to have multiple DTDs for different purposes.
It's surprising for it to have 3 names. -T.

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