> Seriously, though, I would suggest that a well-written browser should
Bernie said:
> gracefully ignore any characters that they don't recognize (possibly
> issuing a warning as they do so).
This has been said by others, so at the risk of being repetitious,
this isn't good enough. Everything after ^z should be ignored. The
same old editors that put ^z at the end of the file can have a *lot*
of other garbage after the ^z. To take the worst case, suppose they
were editing a VRML file with an old editor and deleted a bunch of
stuff at the end. It can happen that the deleted stuff is still there
after the ^z!! This could well and truly confuse the browser.
Tim