- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 20:49:42 +0100
- To: "Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@a5.ph.gla.ac.uk>
- Cc: "WAI Guidelines List" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> > perpetuating a myth that all browsers must render HTML > > with a default stylesheet, > > I'm sorry, I'm unable to understand you on this point. > [...] > Or is it that you're objecting to the idea that the "default > stylesheet" [...] Yep, that's the one, I didn't phrase myself at all well. All browsers really do have to have a built in stylesheet of some sort, because that's what people expect with HTML browsers, but they should make that stylesheet accessible. What I meant was that the very path of evolution of HTML is flawed, inherently flawed in that to make the Web work, browsers had to have default styles for rendering. Perhaps it didn't have to be that way, and certainly it's a shame that the alternative (stylesheets) were not recognized until some time later, but that's all in the past. WCAG is in the present, and it perpetuates the "default style" myths, IMO. At this point, I'm probably going to take Al's suggestion that we not beat this issue too hard (won't stop me from addressing it a bit), because it infringes on many UAAG domain areas etc., and we need to have more people dicussing it. Cheers, -- Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer @prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/> . :Sean :hasHomepage <http://purl.org/net/sbp/> .
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