- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:46:09 +0200
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:41:28 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi at gmx.net> wrote: > * Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> Also, I think the HTML specification should mandate (as SHOULD-level >> requirement, probably) support for the various supported image formats >> as it gives a clear indication of what authors can rely on and what user >> agents have to implement in order to support the web. > > And you think this should be in the "HTML specification" rather than > some dedicated technologies-that-should-be-implemented-by-visual-desk- > top-browsers specification why exactly? Such a "SHOULD" would not apply > to many "HTML implementations" and not easy to specify (you do not want > to require full JPEG support, for example, and an authoring tool might > not support GIF), so you have a SHOULD with many exceptions, decreasing > the normative force of all other SHOULD-level requirements. I forgot to mention that I think the requirement should only apply to the web browser conformance class. It indeed doesn't make much sense for a lot of other user agents. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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