Re: 4.3

Apropos the subject line, what's a "4.3"?

> Moving on to checkpoint 4.3 -
> Assure that technologies required to render the content are listed and
> widely available -- OR -- Use widely available technologies to render
> content, and list the technologies that are required [level 2 guideline]

A terrible idea. Some ancient HTML techniques, like <a rel> or <a type>,
are virtually unsupported. And now we're going to limit what future
technologies people can use?

Why not just de-invent the Web?

In any event, for W3C technologies, we elsewhere require valid code. If
it's in the spec, *you may use it*, and it is not your problem that IE6
still has 90% market share and nobody has a user agent that supports it.
Or, more relevantly to this esteemed Working Group's history, it is not
relevant that the heavily-favoured Jaws program does not support it.

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  Joe Clark  |  joeclark@joeclark.org
  Author, _Building Accessible Websites_
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Received on Thursday, 20 November 2003 12:32:03 UTC