- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:00:04 +0900
- To: scott lewis <sfl@scotfl.ca>
- Cc: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>, HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
Le 26 juin 2007 à 02:35, scott lewis a écrit :
> What use is HTML except as a set of directions to a UA? How does
> hiding the way a UA will process the mark-up from the author
> improve things for her? That is to say, what intrinsic value does:
>
> <ul><li>one<li>two<li>three</ul>
>
> have? The fact that it should be displayed as a bulleted list is a
> processing requirement for the UA. The semantic meaning of "an
> unordered list with three items" is a processing requirement. I
> don't understand how HTML could be defined properly in the absence
> of describing UA behaviour.
Aside: An indexing bot, an aural browser, a tool to extract lists in
a meaningful way do not display anything.
1. A conforming user agent must be able to parse
<ul><li>one</li><li>two<li>three</ul>
<ul><li>one<li>two</li><li>three</ul>
<ul><li>one<li>two<li>three</ul>
<ul><li>one</li><li>two</li><li>three</li></ul>
and many other cases.
2. An author and an authoring tool could have the requirement or at
least the recommended option of producing
<ul><li>one</li><li>two</li><li>three</li></ul>
1. and 2. are both compatible, doesn't harm anyone and would satisfy
more people from what I gather from the different communities. It
would be a nice compromise.
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W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead
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