- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:20:47 +0100
- To: www-style CSS <www-style@w3.org>
Doug Schepers wrote: > David Woolley wrote (on 7/27/2007 3:09 AM): Once you start using plugins you have left the scope of W3C regulation >> and you have decided to enter an essentially unregulated market. > > What? That's not at all true. There are plugins for SVG, MathML, > XForms, SMIL Being unregulated means unregulated. Banning W3C technology based plugins would be a regulation (although I think SVG is a poor example, as my impression is that the original main one, from Adobe, was written with little regard to integrating with the rest of the W3C technologies). >> In practical terms, plugins are quite likely to completely bypass the >> browser when generating sound. > > Only if the plugin vendor decides to make them so. If they have clear Many plugins start as being independent programs. That's particularly true in the sound area, where the main choice is between Real Audio and Windows Media Player. As such, they don't make use of more browser infrastructure than is strictly necessary to allow them to be used. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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