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Re: XHTML DTDs failing in IE5

• From: "A. G. McDowell" <mcdowella@m...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 18:16:43 +0100

I have made a quick search for RFCs promoting the well-known internet
dictum

"Be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send"

So far I have found RFC 1122 (perhaps the widest quoted), RFC 791, and
RFC 1896. This dictum sounds sensible and has been tested in practice. I
don't see how a browser could justify going any further than raising
some sort of warning indicator when faced with something it could
interpret unambiguously, but dislikes.
-- 
A. G. McDowell

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