- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 08:54:25 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
> The specification would dictate the exact visual appearance, > in a manner that can be overridden in CSS only. Although this would Unfortunately there is a very strong lobby on both the CSS (relevant) and SVG (not directly relevant) lists to have repeatable appearances because browser developers find that authors and users are completely incapable of understanding the concept of implementation choices and therefore market forces force them to make their presentation alike. They therefore argue that if the specification doesn't mandate, they would have to reverse engineer the market leader, making that the specification, but not so well written a one. I do agree that this is pandering to presentational markup and XHTML 2 really ought not to follow that line, even though CSS and SVG are definitely following it at the moment.
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