21 messages in org.w3.www-htmlRE: Tag Soup vs Generalized Markup (w...
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Subject:RE: Tag Soup vs Generalized Markup (was: I-D ACTION..)Actions...
From:Larry Masinter (masi@parc.xerox.com)
Date:Oct 8, 1999 2:55:38 am
List:org.w3.www-html

The I-D should point to a Tag Soup spec, and a separate SGML-based spec should probably be written up as a W3C Note. (Because there may be value to modularized HTML as a family of architectures.)

I wrote

In addition to the development of standards, a wide variety of additional extensions, restrictions, and modifications to HTML were popularized by the competitive implementations of Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer and documented in various books and online guides.

I would be happy to include a reference to a "Tag Soup spec" if I could find one that would be suitable for a references list in an RFC. I'm uneasy about recommending one popular HTML book over another, and can't find any stable reference to something that would constitute an "official guide to Mozilla and/or MSIE HTML tags". I thought about:

[MOZ] "HTML Tag Reference", Netscape, 1997; available at <http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/htmlguid/index.htm>.

but couldn't find an MSIE equivalent.

Suggestions?