- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 14:12:38 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Matthew Raymond wrote: > Matthew Thomas wrote: > > On 22 Aug, 2004, at 1:21 PM, Matthew Raymond wrote: > > > Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > Matthew Raymond wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I don't think RENDERING of the access key should be optional. > > > > > > > > It has to be. Google is a user agent. You can't require that google > > > > render access keys, that makes no sense. :-) > > > > > > Google is a user agent??? > > > > Yep. > > I'm not sure this qualifies as a USER agent, and I'm not sure if > rendering HTML as HTML is really rendering at all. It's definitely a user agent -- so is the validator, for that matter. A user agent is any agent acting, on some level, on behalf of a user. Google and the validator act on behalf of users just as much as Web browsers. > Aside from that, I doubt anyone needs access keys enabled from within > search result summaries. Exactly. This is why it shouldn't be a "must". :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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