- From: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:40:40 -0800
- To: "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > > Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: > >> Sorry, but platform-independent UI is one more unreachable dream of >> mankind. > > A bit melodramatic.... Whom how as usual :) The drama is named "Creation of Multi-platform UA". Different platforms will never have something even close to standard UI so that stage will never stand idle. > >> E.g. there are and will be OSes that may not support CUA [1]. > > You seem to be misunderstanding the issue. This is not about CUA, but > quite the opposite: accepting that different OSes, browsers, etc will > use different access models, and therefore not confusing the user by > using cues specific to one particular OS when presented in other > environments. I mean that in OSes that follow CUA (and for their users, btw), things like <u>S</u>omething are getting good portion of semantic. So <u> is not purely decorative element. As I said in previous messages I personally think that <kbd> is better for marking up access key functionality but I saw <u> used for such purposes too. -- Andrew Fedoniouk. http://terrainformatica.com
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