Re: lynx-dev Table support?

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In a recent note, David Woolley said:

> Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 08:29:17 +0100 (BST)
> 
> > The way HTML is defined is that if a browser doesn't recognize a tag or
> > handle it, it ignores the tag and the contents within the tag.
> 
> That's not true.  The browser should ignores the tags, but not the
> contents; authors should, as far as possible, consider the tags as adding
> value to the content, rather than being essential.
> 
I suppose this depends on what the meaning of "within" is.  If "within"
means between the '<' and the '>', the browser should ignore the information
for unrecognized tags; of course it should process in normal fashion
the information between the tag and the matching closing tag.

-- gil