tedster - 7:13 pm on Feb 9, 2001 (gmt 0)

Looks like this area is a side skirmish in the browser wars, started back when Netscape was dominant.

I read on idocs.com [idocs.com] that Virtual and Physical were Netscape's proposed values for HTML 3.0. Soft and hard, respectively were the MSIE proposal.

Then I read on Webreference.com [webreference.com] that Netscape now supports only hard¦soft and MSIE supports physical¦virtual. That's a weird reversal!

I've also read that recent browsers only support the hard¦soft values. The W3C recommendation is nothing.

Can't say I've tested any of this, though, and I just tried to research it and only ended up more confused.

Does anyone have a definitive word?