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- From: Ann Navarro <ann@webgeek.com>
- To: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>, XML-DEV <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 10:07:10 -0400
At 05:47 AM 9/17/99 -0400, David Megginson wrote:
>Ann Navarro writes:
>
> > For current HTML parsers, you need exactly *zero* namespaces. They aren't
> > aware of them. They ignore them. (The same could be said for DTDs on the
> > rendering side of things, though authoring is greatly aided by their
> > inclusion).
>
>That's not entirely true -- MSIE 5, which is very widely deployed,
>*does* know about and use Namespaces for ******everything but HTML******
(because
>there's not a standard HTML Namespace yet). I think that Mozilla
>either does the same or is about to.
*****everything but HTML ******* (emphasis mine)
Which was my point.
Ann
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