- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:34:13 -0800
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Cc: Wendy A Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 06:36 PM 1/15/2001 , Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >Hmmm, I don't think this does it. Either you use the markup (and Q is part of >the markup) or you don't meet the checkpoint. If we want to have an erratum, >it should be specific: "until user agents support the q element, do not use >it". Which of course brings us to the thorny question (yet again) of how >widely something needs to be supported. Frankly, I view this as a flaw in the specification. The HTML 4 spec that included <q> was NOT backwards compatible and thus any implementation will be seriously broken in one of the two ways that Len described. So we're not looking at a problem with user agents, we're looking at a problem with a poorly written spec that doesn't allow for any sort of transitional implementations. And that's broken. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com/ Technical Developer Relations, Reef http://www.reef.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://idyllmtn.com/ Contributor, Special Ed. Using XHTML http://kynn.com/+seuxhtml Unofficial Section 508 Checklist http://kynn.com/+section508
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