- From: <lguarino@adobe.com>
- Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 10:37:16 -0700
- To: John M Slatin <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>
- Cc: jasonw@ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au, Web Content Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> <newProposal> > A minimum set of technologies assumed in the design of Web content to be > supported by, and enabled in, all user agents capable of providing a > user interface for the content. Only user agents in which every > technology in the defined baseline is supported and enabled can > present the information in and allow a user to operate the > functionality of the content. > </newProposal> When I read this, the second sentence feels like we are requiring authors to use all the technologies in the baseline, that is, that somehow we are disallowing the case that a particular website only uses one of the technologies in the baseline and there is a user agent that only supports that technology. For defining baseline, if we are going to include this sort of information, it probably needs to be turned inside out: if you use a technology that is not in the baseline, user agents will not allow users to perceive the information in and operate the functionality, etc. It also feels like we are trying to restore some of the information that we moved into the conformance discussion when we tightened the baseline definition. See the proposal for conformance in [1]. If we aren't comfortable with the minimal description, that is, just the first sentence, perhaps we should look at restoring some of the original language. Loretta [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2005AprJun/0364.html
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