- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 09:51:52 +1000 (AEST)
- To: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Unfortunately there is a significant degree of misunderstanding on the part of some contributors to this discussion. If CSS is not supported by a browser, the style sheet will not be downloaded or applied at all, and a default rendering of the document will be provided, based on the HTML markup (naturally this will not include the stylistic preferences expressed in the style sheet but will nonetheless be quite acceptable). There are inconsistencies in implementations of CSS, but no one has suggested that these will cause system lock-up, crashes or any of the other adverse consequences which have been mentioned. Also, it is a principle of the guidelines that they should not take into account any particular browser or browser version in formulating requirements (this is part of W3C neutrality and an attempt to maintain the universality of the guidelines).
Received on Thursday, 15 July 1999 19:52:01 UTC