Re: [csswg-drafts] App. A: Aural style sheets is informative yet sounds normative

>> For information, here is the list of properties implemented by Emacspeak, a speech subsystem for the Emacs editor.

>    Why are we informatively giving an implementation report for an informative appendix in the spec?

I can give some historical context on that one. T.V. Raman proposed some aural properties, which were adopted into CSS in June 1997 and merged into CSS2 in September 1999.
https://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-acss-19990902
https://www.w3.org/TR/WD-acss-970630

It was also given a test implementation, in Java (by Vincent Mallet, an intern I had).

Later, we discovered that Raman had drastically reduced and simplified the list of properties in his actual implementation - but we were unaware he had done so.

Remember this was way before Candidate Recommendation became a thing (and was one of the drivers for CR, in fact).

> More generally, why is this appendix even here? 

Good question. It serves no useful purpose.

I suggest that the new CSS2 spec:
a) drops this appendix
b) mentions in the changes since 2.1 that it was dropped, with a pointer to the corresponding appendix in 2.1



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