- From: Carlos A Velasco <Carlos.Velasco@fit.fraunhofer.de>
- Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:14:39 +0100
- To: Sean Hayes <Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Hi Sean, Sean Hayes wrote: > ... > > I think any workable definition has to be relative to the user agent, > and not only that relative to to the specific moment in time at which > the request is received as well. Any defintion which ignores these > aspects will fail to capture the dynamics of the web. user-agents are "almost passive" receivers of delivery units (well, sometimes they screw-up the interpretation of standards ;-) , but I do not think we are discussing that here). They send to the server how and what they want, and the server assembles the information for them. If the server sends different units to IE than to Firefox, user-agents have no influence on it (other than changing their User-agent string). I think conformance issues are on the other side of the equation. regards, carlos -- Dr Carlos A Velasco - http://access.fit.fraunhofer.de/ Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik FIT [Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT)] Barrierefreie Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie für Alle Schloss Birlinghoven, D53757 Sankt Augustin (Germany) Tel: +49-2241-142609 Fax: +49-2241-1442609
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