Thanks for the information, but I am confused about what you are saying.  I
DID perform a whois check and it returns:

.NU Domain Ltd as the company that owns the name and
J. William Semich as the admin name.

I'm not sure who TBL is, but would welcome further education on the subject.

I thought I may have worded my original post differently.  I had a nagging
feeling that the way it was worded would result in something like this, BUT
I APPRECIATE THE INPUT you provided and welcome more.  It never can hurt to
learn more about the field in which I work and make a living.

Thanks,
Keith D Sellars
WebGraffix
www.webgraffix.com

"Making database sites seem easy"

----- Original Message -----
From: "jim barchuk" <jb(at)jbarchuk.com>
To: <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: validating &153; (TM)


> Hi Keith!
>
> > EXACTLY what I was looking for.  Thanks for the link. I will bookmark
it.
> > Are these listed somewhere on the internet on an official standards
sites,
> > like the W3C?  Yours is the most complete listing I've been able to see
> > since I've been looking.  The W3C site has a list of character entity
sets
> > (http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/latin1.html), but it doesn't really
appear
> > to be a complete list of everything that is available, unless those are
the
> > only ones actually accepted.
>
> Keith, the *is* no 'like the W3C' :) W3C is 'the www.' Check whois
> for w3c.org. TBL owns it, he invented it, he and W3C are the driving
> force behind it.
>
> That said, there is no 'standard' by strict definition. W3C makes
> 'recommendations.' They are in effect the legislative branch. The
> browser authors are the executive branch; they try to make products
> that conform to the recommendations. The HTML authors and web users
> are the executive branch; by accolade or rejection we decide what's
> good and what's not. Then, W3C modifies and adjusts their
> recommendations to more align with authors' and users' needs.
>
> The numbered character entities are always safest. I see pages every
> day that use named entities that some geek somewhere thought was a
> good idea but not every browser recognises and W3C has maybe not even
> heard of yet. Remember when COLOR="GREEN" used to make all kinds od
> sites totally illegible? :)
>
> Mr. Analogy. [tm]
> jb
>
> --
> jim barchuk
> jb(at)jbarchuk.com
>
>

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