From mcguire@neurotica.com Fri May 14 15:14:00 2010 From: mcguire@neurotica.com To: test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org Subject: HTML coding ( was Re: Lisa C and Lisa FORTRAN) Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 16:14:00 -0400 Message-ID: <4BEDAF08.4050403@neurotica.com> In-Reply-To: <011301caf399$2f430e30$5b1b5b0a@user8459cef6fa> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============5222202002919218705==" --===============5222202002919218705== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 5/14/10 3:08 PM, Andrew Burton wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave McGuire" > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 6:39 PM > Subject: Re: HTML coding ( was Re: Lisa C and Lisa FORTRAN) > > >> On May 14, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Andrew Burton wrote: >>>>> Actually, what I meant (and didn't say) is that a "hello world" >>>>> program in >>>>> HTML these days takes no code at all, other than the text "hello >>>>> world"! >>>>> I just tested this on Firefox 2 before posting this reply. It seems >>>>> that >>>>> some (all?) *current-ish* (giving myself some room to move there!) >>>>> browsers >>>>> don't need the intro and outro HTML tags (e.g. HTML and BODY). >>>> >>>> I don't recall any web browser ever actually requiring that in >>>> order to spit out text. >>> >>> So why do we have them? >> >> Well, BODY is needed to differentiate from HEAD, if HEAD is >> present. HTML is simply used to tell the browser that this is HTML, >> as compared to XML or something else. The browser will typically >> recognize it as such (or default to handling it as such) in the >> absence of the HTML tag. >> > > Ahh, that makes sense, sort of. HEAD should have a matching closing tag > though, which would still render the BODY tag useless. Unless the BODY tag > was used to set-up default page colour settings. Well it's still useful from a cleanliness and symmetry perspective. Having stuff enclosed with but followed by unencapsulated body text is kinda ugly, IMO. Know what I mean? -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL --===============5222202002919218705==--