- From: Lee Roberts <leeroberts@roserockdesign.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 18:32:20 -0800
- To: "'John Slatin'" <john_slatin@forum.utexas.edu>, <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
John Slatin wrote: "Here's a slight reworking that does little more than simplify the syntax: == John's reworking of Jason's text== ... There are multiple, independent, and interoperable implementations of the technologies used by the content. Note: Technologies, including formats, protocols, API's, etc., may be considered independent and interoperable if they require different operating systems or don't have substantial code in common. ==end John's reworking==" Lee's Comment: John's suggested text seems simple and easy to understand. The _NOTE_ seems to require a slight modification from "or" to "and". Rationale: we need to qualify that any implementation needs to be on more than one operating system _and_ not share a substantial amount of code. This will be made clearer in the next sections. John Slatin's Question: What does "interoperable" mean in the sentence "There exist multiple, independent, and interoperable implementations of the technologies used by the content"? Lee's answer: Interoperable would mean "programming used to help other applications" as in the engines used by the various user agents and assistive technologies. John Slatin's Question: Does content meet 5.2 if it works in Internet Explorer on both Windows and Macintosh but not in Netscape/Mozilla? Lee's answer: Because we are qualifying that the codes be of substantial difference, the issue of "it works in Internet Explorer on Windows and Mac" would resolve itself. Regardless of which operating system it is on, as long as it uses the same interoperable coding, then it would not qualify as passing this success level. Now, the only question we would have to qualify here is has someone attempted to say that it works in Internet Explorer and Opera on two or more operating systems. My question at that point would be, "are they using Opera in the Internet Explorer masking mode or identifying itself as Opera?" If a person is using Opera they have several "identification" modes which allow it to receive pages from the server or from some JavaScript program that it may not otherwise receive. My only other concern would be did the developer write one of those decision scripts that determines which page the client gets based upon how the user agent identifies itself. Since the majority of developers program for Internet Explorer and Netscape, that leaves many other user agents and browsers at peril. However, we do have the level one success criteria of 5.2 that will help with this problem, but not entirely eliminate the problem. Comments are welcome. Sincerely, Lee Roberts President/CEO 405-321-6372 Rose Rock Design, Inc. http://www.roserockdesign.com
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