- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:23:55 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Jim Ley wrote: > > This is not the aim of Web Forms 2.0 (I'm not 100% sure what it is, The aim of Web Forms 2.0 (and other WHATWG specs) is to extend HTML and its supporting technologies to give authors what they want. > other than lets hurt IE's market share) Hurting IE's market share is not one of the aims of WHATWG. (I really don't see how new technologies could possibly do that.) > I think it's a good idea for the WF2 clients to report back what version > of Web Forms they support. This has the same problems as I described for <ignore>. > How about we require CC/PP with an appropriate vocabulary for the WHATWG > for this? CC/PP is, IMHO, backwards. The whole point of having device-independent, backwards-compatible languages is that you can use the same content everywhere. CC/PP encourages device-specific authoring at the content layer, which is bad for accessibility (only popular devices end up being supported, e.g.). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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