- From: Harry Woodorw <harrry@email.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 20:48:10 +0800
- To: "Vadim Plessky" <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru>, "Jim Ley" <jim@jibbering.com>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
I take one free browser on each platform meaning that at least one browser is available free that supports that platform that conforms to WAI standards. I do not wholy agree with this as I am not quite sure whether it really has to be free or reasonably available in comparrison with the cost of the hardware and network costs. I would consider that if at least one readilly available for each major platform ( I do not include people trying to surf the internet on an amstrad cpm machine etc) which supports access keys,expresses all output in a form suitible for basic screen readers and supports published grammars and has been available for at least say one year in the case of free browsers and works with screen readers say 4 years old we may have a situation that the platform is accessible. I define platform as "Intel pentium 1 + IBM compattible comuter, OR Mac hardware newer than say 4 years. OR Net TV based hardware. I would not count say the AOL browser as being a platform but a browser that may or may not count towards being a readily available browser depending on its support of features mentioned above. I do not count accessible such browsers such as Lynx which if it cannot connect to it's home page on startup stops working. or count Opera as free when it requires either payment or the download of additional advertising messages. The browser must also self install with no special configuration needed by the user. THe user should not have to swap between browsers in order to navigat diferent types of sites. Harry Woodrow -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Vadim Plessky Sent: Friday, 28 December 2001 9:55 PM To: Jim Ley; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: Re: Fresh start? Re: Minimal Browser Capabilities On Friday 28 December 2001 01:29, Jim Ley wrote: | "Charles McCathieNevile" | > 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. IE for PocketPC / Windows CE is, in fact, MS IE 4.0. There were rumors that MS will update it [Pocket IE] to MS IE 5.0, but AFAIK this hsan't happened yet. Anyway, as Win CE PDA's do not have Ethernet or Radio-Ethernet connectivity built-in, I doubt they can be counted as a Platform. And I can add to Jim's list another 1.5 platforms. 1) WebTV - which is also based on MS technologies 2) AOL browser. AOL (still) uses MS IE codebase (some kind of OEM version of MS IE), but some web marketers treat it as a separate browser. So my opinion is that AOL browser should account for 0.5 of "platform" :-) | | Jim. -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/
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