14 May
2010
14 May
'10
12:08 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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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:
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.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
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.