- From: David Rashty +972-2-6584848 <RASHTY@WWW4.HUJI.AC.IL>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 97 18:10 +0200
- To: Moshe Shalom <moshe_shalom@easx.co.il>, Dani Ilan <standard@NetVision.net.il>, Stefan Fuchs <sf@bezeq.co.il>, Israel Ervin Gidali <gidali@vnet.ibm.com>, Nati Guedalia <natig@ncc.co.il>, Gil Mor <gilmor@microsoft.com>, Mati ALLOUCHE <matia@vnet.ibm.com>, Moshe Shalom <moshe_shalom@easx.co.il>, Yevgenia Palanker <pal@actcom.co.il>, Doron Shikmoni <P85025@VM.BIU.AC.IL>, "Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>, Francois Yergeau <yergeau@alis.com>, Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>, Glenn Adams <glenn@spyglass.com>, www-html@w3.org, Khaled Sherif <sherifk@caivm1.vnet.ibm.com>, Jeff Rosenschein <jeffr@accentsoft.com>, Chris Wendt <christw@microsoft.com>, John McConnell <johnmcco@microsoft.com>, Yaniv Feinberg <yanivf@microsoft.com>, Erik van der Poel <erik@netscape.com>, Uri Postavsky <urip@rtlsoft.com>, Uzzi Ornan <ORNAN@cs.technion.ac.il>, Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>, "Mark H. David" <mhd@WORLD.STD.COM>, Edward Resnick <Edward.Resnick@Israel.Sun.COM>, ILAN Hebrew List <ilan-h@taunivm.tau.ac.il>, Jonathan Rosenne <rosenne@NetVision.net.il>
Hi, > > One of the goals of the committee is to steer to directions that will > benefit the Israeli public. If all the browsers will comply to the logical > standard it will be much better for us all. So, we are trying to make it > happen. What you accualy saying is that only people in Israel who have purchesed the Hebrew Version of Windows or Mac will be able to view the pages. All the other Hebrew speakers outside Israel (and there are more than a few) will not be able to read the pages if they will not buy the products that are needed for that. (also Unix/Vax-VMS users will have no way to read the pages after the logical order will be implemented) The question is not about the quality of the outcome but about the range of the solution, and again, in many cases before in the web history there was a compromise between quality and quantity. > > This is not to say that the other implementations will be "illegal". > They will be only "non-standard". People from abroad, people with english > browsers, etc. will always have the option to use visual if they > want to. Sites should offer both options if they want people to be > happy and to cover the maximum of users. > To put the Visual out of the standard means that in many cases organizations will have to demand a logical order pages in there contracts, this is the same as saying *no* to Visual order. > One happy day, in the UNICODE future of things, software coming from the > states will be able to have logical seamlessly. Until then we, as the > Israel Bureau of Standards, should try to give a good framework for the > future years. I see things a bit different than you, and I represent the Israeli Government Internet Committee (www.itpolicy.gov.il). I believe there is a need for the Visual order in this standard > Sincerely Yours, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | David Rashty Rashty@www.huji.ac.il __o | | Computation Center Bitnet: rashty@hujivms _ \<,_ | | The Hebrew University Phone: +972-2-6584397 Weebbb.. (_)/ (_) | | Givat-Ram Campus Fax: +972-2-6527349 | | Jerusalem 91904, ISRAEL. Visit our Webs at | | WWW.HUJI.AC.IL | | URL http://www.huji.ac.il/rashty | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Best Regards, > > Moshe Shalom > Internet Manager > Eastronics Ltd. > > Email: moshe_shalom@easx.co.il > World Wide Web: http://www.easx.co.il
Received on Sunday, 15 June 1997 11:13:29 UTC