Patrick wrote: > In general, I'd love to see the issue you mention addressed not by > maintaining "until user agent" guidelines, but by strong lobbying > to get the manufacturers of these non-compliant user agents to follow > UAAG and support web standards. Otherwise, we may as well include long > sections on "how to deal with IE5.0 and Netscape 4.x" in the > guidelines as well... Definitely, there are simply too many user agents and input/output devices for it to be practical to try and support the details of every single one. For me, that is *why* the W3C standards are so important: everyone should know their bit. It's only when the user agents do their part that the WCAG guidelines become practical for authors. Kind regards, -Alastair -- Alastair Campbell | Director of Research & Development 0117 929 7333 | ac@nomensa.com Please refer to the following disclaimer for this message: http://www.nomensa.com/email-disclaimer.htmlReceived on Tuesday, 31 January 2006 15:10:08 GMT
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