- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:00:42 +0100
- To: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Also sprach David Woolley:
> > I've done some soul-searching on this and reached the conclusion that
> > I can live with the first part, but not the second; I don't want web
> > resources to have inherent page/site restrictions. It breaks with a
> > fundamental principle of the web, that web resources should be
>
> I don't think commercial content producers for the web consider things
> like images to be web resources. They rather consider them to be part
> of a compound document, which is defined either by the page HTML, or by
> the whole site (leading to anti-deep linking rules, and technical
> measures to frustrate deep linking).
Indeed. So, if fonts get root strings, images will be next; concerned
photographers would ask W3C to form a working group to address their
concerns by adding a root string to images.
While this, in the short term, could add some new members to W3C, the
long-term effects for the web are chilling.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Thursday, 6 November 2008 10:02:11 UTC