Re: A case for HTML as a programming language

From: Arthur J. O'Dwyer (ajo_at_nospam.andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: 11/10/04

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    Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 19:20:24 -0500 (EST)

    On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Programmer Dude wrote:
    >
    > Michael Mendelsohn writes:
    [Bill Godfrey, I'm fairly sure, wrote:]
    >>> Here's one, you'll find the file between the BEGIN and END markers.
    >>>
    >>> BEGIN
    >>> END
    >>
    >> The validator.w3.org does not consider the empty file valid HTML.
    >
    > Rightfully so. TITLE is required. I think this should fix it....
    >
    > BEGIN
    > <title>Bill's Program</title>
    > END

       Now it doesn't output its own source code anymore. Also, I highly
    suspect that not only is <title> NOT required, it's actually invalid
    to put the <title> tag outside a <head> section, and it's invalid to
    put <head> outside an <html> section.

    -Arthur

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