ISSUE-92: BACKGROUND_IMAGE_SUPPORT lacks justification

BACKGROUND_IMAGE_SUPPORT lacks justification

State:

CLOSED

Product:

Best Practices Document

Raised by:

Dominique Hazaël-Massieux

Opened on:

2006-01-17

Description:

http://www.w3.org/mid/43C1712B.2070508@metalab.unc.edu
From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>

Section 5.3.7 states:

[BACKGROUND_IMAGE_SUPPORT] Do not use background images unless you know
the device supports them. (Normative)

I don\'t see any reasoning in the document to justify this one, and I
can\'t think of any myself. Won;t a device that doesn\'t support
background images simply ignore them without any detrimental effects? I
can;t think of any examples in practice where the background image was a
critical part of the content. This feels like it would degrade gracefully.

At a minimum, I would ask that this normative rule be explained more.
But if there\'s no good explanation for this, then this rule could simply
be dropped.

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1. Re: [minutes] Thursday Jan 26 2006 (from chaals@opera.com on 2006-01-27)
2. Re: [minutes] Thursday Jan 26 2006 (from gilespayne@nim.yrp.nttdocomo.co.jp on 2006-01-27)
3. [minutes] Thursday Jan 26 2006 (from dom@w3.org on 2006-01-26)
4. RE: ISSUE-92 ACTION-151 : BACKGROUND_IMAGE_SUPPORT lacks justification (from jo@linguafranca.org on 2006-01-24)
5. RE: ISSUE-92 ACTION-151 : BACKGROUND_IMAGE_SUPPORT lacks justification (from dom@w3.org on 2006-01-24)
6. Re: ISSUE-92: BACKGROUND_IMAGE_SUPPORT lacks justification (from andrea@trasatti.it on 2006-01-22)
7. [minutes] Thursday 19 January 2006 (from dom@w3.org on 2006-01-19)
8. ISSUE-92: BACKGROUND_IMAGE_SUPPORT lacks justification (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2006-01-17)
9. Re: ISSUE-92: BACKGROUND_IMAGE_SUPPORT lacks justification (from ron.mandel@openwave.com on 2006-01-17)

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