- From: Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:00:22 +0100
- To: Brad Kemper <brkemper@comcast.net>
- CC: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>, Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Brad Kemper wrote: > I would rather have the 20% become more literate, so that I am not > reduced to writing "I like peach" in icons on my site, instead of > engaging in more intelligent discourse or trying to communicate more > advanced concepts. Of course, I also don't want to discriminate against > people that hate peaches... > > And what about people in comas or dead people? Aren't we discriminating > against them by using communication that they cannot understand? Dead > people represent a much larger portion of humanity than illiterate people. > > I was going to try to type this e-mail in "icon chat", but it didn't > work in Safari 3 or FireFox 3. Did you accidentally omit the <sneer> tags, Brad ? Philip TAYLOR
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