- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 13:08:36 -0400 ()
- To: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > Declarative representation? What does that mean, in English? A representation that describes what fields are needed not their rendering. This allows user agents to be built that render the form on speech-based browsers, text-only browsers, braille-based tactile devices, multimodal browsers etc. as well as your regular graphical windows platforms. > And isn't Java supposed to run on a wide range of browser > devices? Java defines a platform. It makes quite a lot of assumptions, e.g. requiring a graphical display. Many Java programmers build in further assumptions about the display size. Regards, -- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett phone: +44 122 578 2521 (office) +44 385 320 444 (gsm mobile) World Wide Web Consortium (on assignment from HP Labs)
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