Re: Comments on HTML WG face to face meetings in France Oct 08

Ian Hickson wrote:

> Specifically, which layer (specification) defines what the rendering of 
> this URL should be, in terms of how the syntax or parsing affects whether 
> there should be any bold text?:
> 
> data:text/xml,%3C?xml-stylesheet%20href=%22data:text/css,*{font-weight:bold}%22?%3E%3Croot%3Etext%20%3Couter%3Eouter%20%3Cinner%3Einner%3C/outer%3E

Up to the application. Feed that URL to any app you like. The app 
defines what should be done with it. Feed it to a browser, you'll get 
one thing. Feed it to an app that wants to do somethint else, you'll get 
something else.

In this specific example, though, I personally don't recognize exactly 
what you're sending so I'm not sure which specs apply. (Some sort of 
encoded XML with CSS maybe?) However were I to choose to consume this I 
would have to choose which specs to apply. You as publisher neither get 
to choose nor specify how I interpret your data. You may suggest, but I 
am free to ignore your suggestions if I prefer to do something else.

There is no *required* processing, nor should there be.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@metalab.unc.edu
Refactoring HTML Just Published!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321503635/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA

Received on Monday, 17 November 2008 15:18:45 UTC