- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:21:45 -0700
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, Dannii <curiousdannii@gmail.com>, Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>, HTML4All <list@html4all.org>, Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Apr 14, 2008, at 1:13 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > >> >> Nothing - so we should be realistic about the use cases for any >> stamp, and reckon on the overall cost/benefit from this. Ian asked >> elsewhere what would be the benefit in making a private email >> between himself and his partner non-conforming, but equally it >> could be asked what possible benefit is tehre to them in knowing >> that their private email *is* conforming? In either case I suspect >> the answer is "none whatesoever", so looking at the cost becomes >> worthwhile... > > Validating the email you send isn't a particularly useful activity, > but a email app vendor may still want their QA to check that the > output of their program matches the spec. I think HTML should focus > on Web pages, though. Many popular mail clients (GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail) publish mail messages as Web pages. Regards, Maciej
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