- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:58:17 -0500
Karl Dubost wrote: > Why it is not necessary good to mandate a specific format in a > specification > > > * When to standardize, especially an RDF API > Dan Connolly > > > [1] http://www.w3.org/QA/2007/03/orthogonal_specifications_is_good That makes some sense, though reading it one thing jumps out at me. Why can we not link to a video with an img element? Why can't we link to a Flash animation or SVG or SMIL with an img element? Isn't a video just another image format? If the specifications really are orthogonal, then the media format shouldn't be relevant. By the way, I checked. HTML 4.0.1 never actually defines "image". It says imgs link to images, but it doesn't say anything about images being static that I noticed. How orthogonal are the specs really? -- ?Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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