Re: handling fallback content for still images (www-archive)

On Jul 5, 2007, at 9:49 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:

> On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:34:43 +0200, Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>  
> wrote:
>>> So far I haven't seen much activity in the getting user agents  
>>> more interopable area. Most of it is people requesting a <burger/ 
>>> > element to be included in the next version of HTML. And  
>>> complaints about some explicit accessibility features from HTML 4  
>>> that are not included in the current draft because several use  
>>> cases were not considered and not much research was done in the  
>>> area.
>>
>> I can't imagine how our WG can't be about interoperability.
>
> Me neither.
>
>
>> As for <burger/> element, the closest thing we have to a <burger/>  
>> element are the <video>, <audio>, and <canvas> elements.
>
> These are not requested, these are being implemented. The  
> specification is there to make sure they are implemented in an  
> interoperable way. They help making HTML a more viable open  
> alternative to Flash, Flex, Silverlight, etc.

No... they don't.