- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 23:54:07 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Cc: Daniel Barclay <daniel@fgm.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Sun, 14 May 2006, Philip TAYLOR wrote: > >> > >> * Section 15.7 guides UAs to use font sizes "small" (2) and "xx-small" > >> (1) for heading levels h5 and h6. > >> > >> That seems much too small. Why should any headings be _smaller_ > >> than regular text (text that defaults to "font-size: medium")? > > > > Because it's what Mosaic did in 1993. The spec doesn't require this, > > it merely points out that this is the typical thing. > > It's hard to understand how "guidelines" (the term used by the specification) > can be interpreted as "examples of current usage". Surely "guidelines" > /guide/, rather than merely /document/ ? It's a guide, because any UA that wants to actually render the Web in a way even remotely compatible with existing browsers has to do this, because, in 1993, Mosaic set that as the default. > I agree with Daniel's analysis, and recommend that this section be > re-worded to clarify that the table illustrates current practice based > on historical precedent rather than offering informed guidance to > recommended practice. It _is_ informed guidance to recommended practice. (Also, the working group is highly averse to making such minor wording changes at this juncture. This working draft has been a work in progress for over 8 years now, it is about time we stopped wordsmithing back and forth on such minor details as non-normative guidelines.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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