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Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1995 08:50:21 -0800
From: Jim Hamerly <jim@pages.com>
Subject: Re: .gif and NetScape Tag
To: khare@CALTECH.EDU
Cc: WebStep@xent.caltech.edu
Message-id: <9502081650.AA06933@pages.com>
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Rohit Hhare asks: "Seriously, should we, as a standards group, recognize the
validity of producing NetScape tags? I can understand the browser-writers
wanting to implement it, but I think it's not good policy for authoring
standards."
Pages, for one, has been and will continue to work with the HTML Working Group
as well as the DSSSL Committee to help direct standards efforts, and we'd like
to see WebStep do the same. Our position is to support, maintain, and extend
open standards. We also want to preserve the separation of structure and
content from style in HTML applications. As such, we will not be supporting
format tagging (such as some of the Netscape extensions) unless (a) the market
demands it and (b) it does not promulgate a proprietary, non-open position.
-- Jim