[WEB4LIB] Re: another tangent to Re: Inline forms in CSS

[Thomas Keays]

On 28 Feb 2002, Thomas Dowling wrote:
> By adding a bogus NOINDEX element, you break any program that looks for 
> valid markup.  That includes, obviously, validators, which will never pass 
> your pages--so you may not be able to use them to see what else is wrong 
> with them.

<devils advocate="on">

With xhtml and ultimately xml, the stage is being set for tags of 
this sort of tag actually being useful.  Not that current web 
indexing programs are going to understand it, but with a properly 
defined DTD, next-generation indexes might.  Also, given a DTD, it 
should be possible to write pages that will validate just fine.  Not 
that I necessarily think it's a good idea, mind you.  

Xhtml as it currently stands, coexists with proprietary tags just 
fine, although xhtml itself does nothing to cause them to be 
implemented in all browsers.  An example in an xhtml book that I saw 
recently showed a page using <iframe> tags.  

</devils>

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