- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:17:02 +0000
- To: annevk@opera.com, www-svg@w3.org, public-html@w3.org, public-xhtml2@w3.org, w3c-wai-pf@w3.org, w3c-html-cg@w3.org
- CC: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
T.V Raman wrote: > Actually ARIA cannot be used in a browser that hasn't been > enhanced for it. > I think people are taking the view that the browser will be enhanced by the addition of author provided scripting or author provided style sheets that access the ARIA information in the DOM, and that is why they are so sensitive about IE's partial implementation of namespaces, because the part they didn't implement was the DOM access part in CSS, and probably in scripts. If that's not their objection, then IE should be able to ignore them properly, so there should be no problem in using the namespace syntax. This will be delayed, by moderation, on some mailing lists and may fail completely on some. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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