- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 01:29:57 -0000
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
"Charles McCathieNevile" > Yep, this is an important issue. How often is it reasonable to expect users > to upgrade their software, their hardware, or their knowledge? > > In the discussion that took place in teh WCAG group, one of the points I > think was important was that it is at least as important to work out what are > the criteria for deciding if a feature is sufficiently available that we > demand that the user learn to use it. For example does it need to be > available in one free browser for each platform? Or does it need to be > avalable in IE (which is not a multi-platform browser - it is available on > two platforms and the versions are effectively different pieces of software)? > Or does it need to be available for at least two years? I believe it's available on 4 platforms (Win32, Mac,Solaris, and PocketPC) but it's also 4 seperate browsers with an entire different codebase (unlike NN, or Mozilla) which share only a name. Jim.
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