BROWSER & HTML VERSION DIFFERENCES



This page was written for the considerate web page builder.  Using tag elements that are specified in HTML 4.x only may lead to olderbrowsers' inability to load pages correctly.  Though how there can be anyone still using a browser that does not support at the very least HTML 3.x is beyond my comprehension.
    Anyway, most web pages today are still built with HTML 3.2 specifications.  Additions to HTML 4.0 are not widely used if at all. Probably because most people do not bother with it.  The exception being <frameset>, but this was already supported in version 3.2. It was formally adopted in 4.0.  This means that Navigator 4.x and Explorer 4.x supports all HTML 4.0 specs and older.  3.x versions of these two browsers supports HTML 3.2 and older specs.
    There are browser spec. expansions.  Some like Netscape include extra tag capabilities.
    If you are one of the more curious ones and want to know more, follow these two links:

        HTML 4.0 changes by w3.org  -  all you need to know about the latest incarnation of HTML.

        BrowserCaps HomePage  -  has test results on different browser HTML handling capabilities.