- From: Timur Mehrvarz <timur.mehrvarz@web.de>
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:55:18 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Steve K Speicher <sspeiche@us.ibm.com>, public-cdf@w3.org
On 21. Feb 2006, at 19:49, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Steve K Speicher wrote: >> >> Due to the nature of constrained devices within the mobile industry, >> many vendors have coordinated such subset profiles and therefore will >> depend on CDF profiles to provide interoperable rich content to such >> devices. > > ...which has nothing to do with the Web (since such devices wouldn't > interoperate with existing Web content) and therefore shouldn't be in > scope of the W3C. > > This does not satisfy my concerns. I fear that CDF is encouraging, or > justifying, a "split Web" situation with multiple profiles, which is > directly counter to the device-independent design of the Web and of > W3C's > design principles. Why would 'such devices' not interop with existing Web content? Are plain XHTML Basic agents OK? Would WICD Full alone solve it? Is compounding the problem? Are pure SVG agents interoperable enough with existing Web content, to be in scope of W3C? Sorry, I don't get a grip on your argument. Timur
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