- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:53:59 -0700
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > This is in fact what I am proposing. Let Web browser have the option of > switching to "authoring device" mode. In that case, why does the web page need anything in it at all? If web browsers want to ship a strict non-default parser mode, that's fine. They can just do that. No need to annotate pages to use it. > I suppose you meant that a "CSS property alone wouldn't work". However, > by CSS, I did not mean only a CSS property, but also a new CSS/HTML > media device type (I did not mean a "MIME type"). The media type that we > target via the CSS selector '@media' or the HTML media attribute. What's the point of the media type here? > The thing is that a media device of course treats the whole page in a > certain way. This is programmed into the device before it starts reading > the page. Thus, the device also has some predefined CSS properties. Not sure what you mean by that, exactly... > If we had a "authoring device" media type (or a "authoring mode" sub > media type), then we could have a default > > @media authoring{parsing:strict} > > for those devices/modes. If UAs could /switch/ their media mode, then > authors could also, with the touch of a button (which I think you > proposed, anyway), see the page in "authoring mode". This has nothing to do with CSS or media, though. > As a CSS property it would of course also be possible (for security or > other reason) to use > > @media all {parsing:strict} I'm not clear on how you think this would work. Care to explain? -Boris
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