Re: Graceful degradation (was: Re: Issues summary, GL 4.2)

• From: <lguarino@adobe.com>
• Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:48:13 -0700
• To: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
• Cc: WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
• Message-id: <148f7f15024d.15024d148f7f@adobe.com>

> Graceful degradation is a term already in wide use in Web standards. 
It is 
> not something we should attempt to redefine.
> 

It may be widely used in Web standards, but one of the 4.2 issues was 
a request for us to explain what we meant by it! And what we are 
requiring appears to be a bit stronger; it says that the functionality 
should not degrade if only the baseline technologies are available.

Should we include the term as part of the baseline definition? I would 
not recommend removing the explanation.

Received on Wednesday, 27 April 2005 21:48:23 UTC