- From: Johannes Koch <johannes.koch@fit.fraunhofer.de>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:20:44 +0200
- To: public-wai-ert@w3.org
Christophe Strobbe wrote: > At 11:10 30/03/2006, Johannes Koch wrote: >> Well, yes. But why do you reference a transitional document type when >> you use only markup from the strict one? > > - Legacy data; Is there really legacy data referencing transitional, but only using strict stuff? :-) > - clean up deprecated markup without touching doctype (for whatever > reason, e.g. save some time to fix more important things); OK > - allow adding deprecated attributes by means of JavaScript (so document > is still valid with transitional DTD but not with a strict one); Which still is deprecated markup. > - most importantly, "avoid" in WCAG 1.0 is a guideline for developers, > not a prohibition regarding markup (unlike WCAG 2.0, WCAG 1.0 does not > have success criteria for content, but only guidelines, i.e. advice, to > developers); For me "avoid" means something like "don't use". Sounds like you think it's not suitable to make laws etc. based on WCAG 1.0. -- Johannes Koch - Competence Center BIKA Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT.LIFE) Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany Phone: +49-2241-142628
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