- From: Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:52:47 +0000
On 4/28/11, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > On Sat, 11 Dec 2010, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: >> >> An UA can support the scheme used without supporting the <source> >> >> element. If <A> was used, they just had to support <A> and the scheme. >> > >> > It's still not clear to me what problem this would solve. I see what it >> > would do, but why would we want that? >> > >> Backwards-compat. It's so UAs that don't support <source> can still >> grasp some semantical information from the element. > > Do you have a concrete example of how that would work? What current UAs > usefully grasp such information in such a context? > All current UAs would understand the link (and most probably present it to the user). Inline presentation is an optional luxury: the important thing is getting the media across. I, for one, can't find any sign of <source> support in wget, and a few other "non-mainstream" UAs.
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