- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 13:05:13 -0400 (EDT)
- To: w3c-html-wg@w3.org, w3c-wai-hc@w3.org
- Cc: jbrewer@w3.org
There is one thing about the HC position on MEDIA types that may or may not be adequately stated in the report. This is that we anticipate stylesheets will be developed which are appropriate to the same base type but with different parametric characteristics such as screen size and language. We expect browsers to use the text in a media type indication which follows the base type but comes before the list-element-delimiting comma to resolve stylesheet selection ambiguities in this case. How they do that is not defined in what we propose to be the provisions of the HTML 4.0 specification. [We are developing browser guidelines that refine the browser behavior provisions of the language spec.] At one point the HTML spec had language saying that browsers "should ignore" all marks in the media type indication except the base type. This is too strong for what we see as the right stylesheet-selection rules. For more information please consult http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-hc/1997JulSep/0061.html and the thread around it. -- Al Gilman
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