- From: Jim Ley <jim.ley@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:17:27 +0100
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:05:11 +0200 (METDST), Martin Kutschker <martin.t.kutschker at blackbox.net> wrote: > Well, now what? I see the problem. Do I understand it correctly > that we simply say getting locale and time zone is outside the > spec, so browser developers must deal with it. Well I've yet to see the use cases that can't be resolved without the need to submit UTC. Since the whole point of this is to be backwards compatible, we can't just leave it to UA's since there's no way to do this in legacy browsers - and we'll lose backwards compatibility. Solution, who knows, I think I've made my opinion clear - drop it. > Sure. Anyway web/gtraphics designers loath everything > they cannot control. If it cannot be controlled at least to > some degree it simply won't be used. Indeed! but this is a problem with all the elements in the spec, they're all semantically correct with no idea of what they'll look like, especially as in IE6 they'll generally just look like a small rectangular box, so the design needs to cope with both a small rectangle, and whatever great ideas the browser vendors create for the richer controls. I hope the designers can rise to that challenge, I don't think they can... Jim.
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