- From: Jeff Sonstein <jeffs@it.rit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 07:52:01 -0400
- To: public-bpwg@w3.org
- Cc: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
Chaals wrote: > So BP2 really becomes how to adapt content to take advantage of > capabilities - and needs to be clear about how you determine whether > or > not you have those capabilities. If we are working from some > preconceived > notion of what the target browser is, we are making a very big > mistake - > we should be working with an assumption of the kinds of things that > phones > have available, which is a broader set but also makes us consider > carefully each option I agree with much of this statement while graceful degradation and progressive enhancement are indeed "so 1996" (as one blog-comment had it) I am afraid that the situation is somewhat like that now... all mobile browsers do not (yet) support the same minimal-capabilities- set so our code has to figure out at run-time how to adjust to the browser environment actually encountered on the client just my $0.02 worth jeffs -- "Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion." -- Ambrose Bierce -- ============ Prof. Jeff Sonstein Director, MS-IT Program http://www.it.rit.edu/~jxs/ http://ariadne.iz.net/~jeffs/ http://chw.ariadne.mobi/ http://www.xvrml.net/ http://ariadne.iz.net/~jeffs/jeffs.asc http://www.it.rit.edu/~jxs/emailDisclaimer.html
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