- From: John Foliot - WATS.ca <foliot@wats.ca>
- Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 08:03:31 -0500
- To: 'Asbjørn Ulsberg' <asbjorn@tigerstaden.no>, <www-html-request@w3.org>, <www-html@w3.org>
Asbjørn Ulsberg wrote: > Isn't XHTML 2.0 supposed to be breaking most of this history and not > be backward-compatible anyway? Why does the 15 years of history with > <html> apply to XHTML 2.0 if none of the other (excuse my language) > rubbish from older HTML specifications doesn't? Actually Asbjørn, I thought the very same thing too, but my current debate with the XHTML Editors regarding the @key attribute seems to indicate that what they say and what they do doesn't always correspond - they are quite happy to keep "rubbish" for un-substantiated "historical" reasons, even when provided with multiple reasons for not dong so: http://www.wats.ca/articles/access+keystill=accesskey/80 JF -- John Foliot foliot@wats.ca Web Accessibility Specialist / Co-founder of WATS.ca Web Accessibility Testing and Services http://www.wats.ca Phone: 1-613-482-7053
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