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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 16 Mar 1997 00:07:49 +0100
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Adrian Aichner <aichner@ecf.teradyne.com> writes:

>  o psgml-html would not promote open standards but instead spread
>    usage and acceptance of vendor-specific HTML-dialects.

No.  Remember what we are doing here, and *why* we are doing it.
XEmacs is an editor[1].  psgml-mode is a very convenient way to help
people edit their HTML documents, *not* to preach them of the correct
ways.

Were we building an HTML browser or a validator, I'd oppose the HTML
Pro DTD implementation.  But we should be trying to make a user's life
easier, not harder.

This reminds me of the time when someone asked a question regarding
csh shell programming support in XEmacs.  Someone answered:

"Why do you use csh?  Use sh for shell programming!"

While this answer may be correct as of itself, I don't think it's
XEmacs' (or its developers', for that matter) duty to restrict its
users of what they can and/or should do.  For me, the csh-programming
example and the HTML-Pro-DTD example are equivalent.


[1]
When it is not a religion, of course.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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