Re: lynx

Daniel Dardailler wrote:
> 
> > However, shouldn't Lynx implement the accessibility features
> > of HTML like other browsers? As for the DOM requirements, the
> > WG has reinforced their presence in the document several occasions.
> 
> I gather that for HTML, compliance cannot be asserted to an older
> version of the language, e.g. to HTML 3.2 ?

Yes, it can. We don't have a requirement (only a suggestion)
to use the latest version of a spec.
 
> For DOM, since lynx is closer to a command line filter than it is to a
> real interactive application, the connection to DOM is dubious.
> 
> Could a couple [lynx + some separate libDOM] meets the checkpoint ?

Yes. Conformance for composites ok!

> In which case, since a libDOM exists somewhere one click away from the
> lynx download page, this would just be a packaging issue.


 _ Ian

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Received on Monday, 13 November 2000 10:30:41 UTC