- From: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:20:23 -0400
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
At 04:49 PM 4/30/2007 +0100, Gareth Hay wrote: >Isn't the whole idea of the, so-called HTML5, that the page will >render according to the specification in all browsers? That is not a possibility unless I am missing something. Browsers -- by which I assume that you mean that class of browser which is found on computer desktops -- are not all there is. There are also aural and tactile browsers. Not to mention wet-ware browsers. I can read HTML. I can parse it. I can understand most of what is intended by non-interactive HTML pages. I am able to treat HTML as if it is a continuum from HTML 2.0 to what I may receive over HTTP at any moment. Is the HTML 5 spec intended to leave all non-desktop browsers in the dark? So, I may be alone -- consider this a cry in the dark -- but I still don't think that the browser should define HTML. That was the POV that was pomulgated by Mosaic and Netscape developers back in 1994. I didn't buy it then and I don't buy it now. HTML is more than what the browser guys say it is. Regards, Murray
Received on Monday, 30 April 2007 16:34:57 UTC