----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: HTML coding ( was Re: Lisa C and Lisa FORTRAN)
On May 13, 2010, at 5:18 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?
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk