- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 12:37:17 -0700
- To: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Cc: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 11:55 AM, Joe Clark wrote: >> A XAG-compliant XML format has a default stylesheet (as does XHTML). >> Perhaps what we mean is that the default styling, for any medium, >> should be sufficient to "read" the content - rather than saying this >> only applies to HTML, which as Joe pointed out is very different to >> XML in regards to stylesheets. > > Anyone care to explain that, using as few acronyms as possible? The guidelines for creating an accessible markup language specify that created languages should have a default style sheet. HTML is an example; when we say "can be read without style sheets", we really mean that they can be read with the default style sheet, such as the one included in the HTML 4.01 specification. (It's also incorporated into XHTML's definition, therefore.) For example, "without styling" would mean that strong text wouldn't show up as bold in a visual browser. It would mean that headings and text would flow together and be indistinguishable. So obviously the requirement "without styles" is broken, because all use of HTML or XHTML requires that some style sheet be applied -- even if it is the default style sheet of the browser, which parallels that of the HTML 4.01 default style sheet. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com Author, CSS in 24 Hours http://cssin24hours.com Inland Anti-Empire Blog http://blog.kynn.com/iae Shock & Awe Blog http://blog.kynn.com/shock
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