- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 14:18:52 -0500
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Excellent summary, Marti. And an issue that has consumed a lot of energy in the GL group (who are tasked with tackling it) to date without being wrestled to the mat as yet, so far as I know. Al At 10:14 AM 2000-12-16 -0500, Marti wrote: >Whew! Given the temperature of this rhetoric, it really could be a political >discussion. > >While >(3.3)"Use style sheets to control layout and presentation" is certainly a >clear statement, I can't help but wonder how you square it with >(11.1)"Use W3C technologies when they are available and appropriate for a >task and use the latest versions when supported." >Suppose, for a moment, that I was somehow able to create pages based purely >on CSS for layout and presentation such that they looked 'right' in the >latest versions of IE and NN. Further, by some miracle they are ok without >CSS too! Now, what am I supposed to do about all those 'partial' >implementations of CSS? >From the legal standpoint it appears,to me, that you could drive the >proverbial truck through the loophole(s) in 11.1. >Can any checkpoint be read as a stand alone element, or should they be >viewed in the larger context of the whole document? >Marti >
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