- From: Brian Kelly <lisbk@ukoln.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 09:18:35 -0000
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Cc: WAI <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
I have to disagree (with the instant dismissal of use of the Pentium III unique ID.) Machine-understandable definitions of client capabilities is a good thing. Unfortunately transparent content negotiation hasn't really taken off (although the W3C website does use TCN for sending PNG to PNG-conformant browsers, otherwise it sends GIF). With the grown in network-aware PDAs, mobile phones, etc, there is renewed interest in protocol solutions - as an example see the "Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): A user side framework for content negotiation" Note at <URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-CCPP > I would argue that the accessibility community should be lobbying for such developments to take their needs into consideration (and I think you have much to gain) rather than dismissing it out of hand. Brian ------------------------------------------------------ Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus UKOLN, University of Bath, BATH, England, BA2 7AY Email: b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ Homepage: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/b.kelly.html Phone: 01225 323943 FAX: 01225 826838 ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org> To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com> Cc: WAI <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 3:06 PM Subject: Re: Pentium III-only sites coming >Well, I guess that's another black mark in Australia's copybook. Hopefully >we do more good than bad though (smile). > >Whether the idea dies the death it probably deserves, or expands into the >nightmare that people seem to fear, depends on how many people buy Pentium >3 machines, and whether they then play in teh sites or just write comments >saying they wished the money had been psent making their computer cheaper >instead. (and leave the site alone. Unfortunately I haven't worked out how >to have my cake and eat it. Yet.) > >Oh well. Interoperability won't be built in a day. (Although I sometimes >wonder whether a bit more thinking would have eant that it could...) > >cheers > >Charles > >On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Kynn Bartlett wrote: > > At 01:30 p.m. 03/02/99 EST, Lovey@aol.com wrote: > >Please note the following article I was sent today. > >Pentium III-only sites coming > >By DAVID FLYNN | INTEL is working with several Australian content providers to > >establish Web sites that are not only optimised for PCs based on the Pentium > >III processor but restricted to Pentium III machines. > > Sounds like a really dopey idea. About as dopey as the identity > tracking on Pentium IIIs. I predict that this idea is dopey enough > that it will die just from being dopey once the Pentium III marketing > rush is over. > > You know, using the same technology I suppose one could always > EXCLUDE Pentium IIIs as a way of protest. > > -- > Kynn Bartlett <kynn@hwg.org> > President, Governing Board Member > HTML Writers Guild <URL:http://www.hwg.org> > > >--Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org >phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://purl.oclc.org/net/charles >W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI >MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA > >
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