Re: Minutes from 16 November 2000 WCAG WG telecon

At 10:34 PM +0000 11/23/00, Sean B. Palmer wrote:
>If you're using XHTML as a document display format for text/html groking
>User Agents, then fine: add as much presentation and behaviours as you like.
>But if you're using XHTML as a data format, containg Semantic information
>that a world of SW/XML/RDF processors can understand, then use a future
>version of XHTML, and never breathe a word about presentational markup and
>attached behaviours.

If you're using XHTML as a data format, then it's no wonder you're
having problems!  XHTML is an awful data format except for a very
small set of file types.  It's actually grown to be better as a
general presentation language than as a general document data
format.

--Kynn
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Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
http://www.kynn.com/

Received on Monday, 27 November 2000 14:34:48 UTC