>Aren't we glad that netscape ignored the standards back when they first
>came out, and implemented the <center> tag? If your webserver refused to
>serve "broken" webpages with the <center> tag, where would your business
>be today?
You forget thet HTML was a new standard back then. <center> is in the later
specifications. But you know what: my pages all have the "<go a little bit
righter than usual>" tag. Your browser does not support it, so you suck.
I think you all miss the point: standards cannot be changed, but new ones
can be constructed. But it is not you, not me or OpenSRS who should change a
standard so important as email-addresses. I cannot introduce a new HTML tag
either, but there are ones who can propose.
And anyway - man, this is pathetic! - if you introduce a new tag that does
NOT introduce incompatibility. But if I say that <B> from now own means
<font color=#123456>, that is NOT good. HTML standard says "if you find a
tag you do not understand, ignore it". RFC822 says "you can only accept
email addresses which comply with the following regexp". That makes a
difference. (Guess you didn't know that.)
And back to the "old fashioned Internet guys": at least they know what they
are speaking about, I mean they understand what they do, how Internet
protocols work, and it's not about "my friend told me that he had seen an ad
on television about email-addresses... did you know they have a '@' in them?
how stupid, let's make money by leaving it out!"
RFC822 is an old an working standard. Go, propose a new one, they might
listen to you.
- Cs.
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